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Introduction You're a DevOps engineer responsible for 50 EC2 instances. It's Friday at 4 PM. A critical CVE ( Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures ) just dropped, a vulnerability in OpenSSL affecting every Linux server. Your security team wants all i...

Introduction Hybrid and multicloud strategies are now the norm for enterprises seeking agility, resilience, and compliance. Yet, managing infrastructure that spans AWS, on-premises data centres, and even other public clouds introduces operational com...

A Real-World Situation (You’ll Relate) Picture this: It’s a regular workday. Your production EC2 instance is running fine.Then a message drops in your team chat: “Hey… I can’t SSH into the server. I think the .pem file is gone.” Your heart skips a ...

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automation documents are powerful tools for optimizing cloud costs by automating routine, manual, and repetitive tasks. By using these documents, you can enforce cost-saving policies and practices at scale across your AWS en...

Using a Public EC2 Bastion to access your VPC resources through SSH from your local computer? There’s a better, more secure way and that is by leveraging Systems Manager (SSM) Session Manager. What is a Bastion? Imagine you have a database running in...
