Connecting to a private Windows EC2 instance without exposing RDP to the internet
Let’s say you have a (Windows or Linux) EC2 instance in a private subnet and want to access it interactively. There are several ways to do this.
AWS
Terraform: Change EC2 user_data without recreating instance
When you have set up your infrastructure with Terraform and then do any change to the user_data of a EC2 instance, Terraform will detect the change and gener...
Database backups via mysqldump: from MariaDB container to S3
For a little side project I wanted an easy way to perform regular backups of a MariaDB database and upload the resultant dump gzipped to S3.
Resolving import issues when deploying Python code to AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is Amazon’s “serverless” compute platform that basically lets you run code without thinking (too much) of servers. I used Lambda in the past, thou...