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Amazon Web Services

Recorded demos and examples:

  • Burstable CPU example
  • CloudFormation example
  • Alexa

Scripts and other resources:

  • S3 Storage Classes overview
  • Tips for working with a bastion host effectively.
  • Script to start, stop and terminate EC2 instances automatically.
  • Setting up a bastion host as an OpenS/WAN (VPN) endpoint.
  • System V init script to mount EFS exports automatically.
  • Shell script for an S3 Multipart Upload
  • Bash shell script that updates the runtime of all your Lambda functions, if AWS deprecates a particular runtime version.
  • Lambda that implements a Daily Spend Alert email, if the total or per-account daily maximums have been exceeded.
  • Blog post about IAM Permission Boundaries.
  • Blog post about transitioning from the Node/JS AWS-SDK v2 to v3

Live Demos

  • Glacier demo
  • S3 Signed URL demo
  • S3 Upload via HTTP POST demo
  • Simple Queue Service (SQS) demo
  • Simple Notification Service (SNS) demo
  • Secure Token Service (STS) demo
  • Key Management Service (KMS) demo
  • Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) device demo
  • Kinesis demo (needs Kinesis stream running)
  • Step Functions demo
  • Cognito demo
  • Whiteboard: API GW V2 (websockets) demo
  • CloudFront and Lambda@Edge demo
  • CloudFront Functions demo

Useful links:

  • labs.easytocloud.com. (AWS demos by easytocloud)
  • selec2or.info (EC2 instance type selector by easytocloud)
  • cloudping.info (Tool to determine latency to AWS regions)
  • Timer