When using CloudReady OS it was noticed that downloaded (files saved directly on the device) mp4 and other video files were not playing audio when using the local ChromeOS player / default video player and the sound icon is greyed out. This also included previewing the same files direct from Google Drive. (Update, another reader […]
Introduction In this guide we will walk through the steps to to migrate an existing wordpress website to a new AWS Lightsail instance. Create a New Lightsail Instance Description Screenshot Log into the AWS management console Click Create Instance Choose the AWS Region, Platform, and Blueprint As this is a wordpress example we have chosen […]
Summary AWS Guard Duty offers an enhanced security scan of all AWS services and how to better protect them based on your usage patters and well known vulnerabilities. General Observations GD Analyzes VPC Flow Logs, AWS CloudTrail events and AWS DNS logs. Console Notification for new findings – as they are analysed and discovered. Notification […]
Cloud Video Walk Through – AWS IoT Button In this video series mastersof.cloud walks through the steps of creating your own ‘personal alarm’ button and details how to configure an AWS IoT Button, join it to your wireless network, connect it to an amazon account, assign it to trigger a Lambda function which finally sends a […]
Problem From time to time there seems to be some ongoing issues where Apple Mac OSX Security and Privacy Allow Button is not working. No matter how many times you click ‘allow’ it simple doesn’t function (yet the button highlights blue as if its been pressed) and this happens regardless of whether you unlock the […]
Scenario Lets script a custom aws appstream image A customer wanted to setup AWS AppStream 2.0 Image Automation for their AppStream image creation especially as there were situations where two or more images were potentially required including monthly updates (minimum) so they needed a repeatable, consistent solution for this. Solution You can only automate […]
Scenario A customer had a requirement for Cloud Hosting With Multiple Proxy Servers and wanted to send some traffic direct to the internet (host or url whitelist), some hosts or urls to one proxy in their cloud hosting and some traffic via another proxy in another peered network in their cloud hosting. Solution Our solution […]
UPLOAD LOCAL FOLDER and SUBFILES to S3 #Load AWS Powershell Extensions import-module “C:\Program Files (x86)\AWS Tools\PowerShell\AWSPowerShell\AWSPowerShell.psd1” #Set AWS Creds to connect to S3. The S3 user should have a specific IAM policy to lock them down to this specific bucket only. See here for example s3 policy Set-AWSCredentials -AccessKey <BUCKETUSERACCESSKEY> -SecretKey <SECRETKEY> -StoreAs default #Upload […]
This policy will assign a specific user access to a specific bucket in s3 { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: [ “s3:GetBucketLocation”, “s3:ListAllMyBuckets” ], “Resource”: “arn:aws:s3:::*” }, { “Effect”: “Allow”, “Action”: “s3:*”, “Resource”: [ “arn:aws:s3:::mybucketname”, “arn:aws:s3:::mybucketname/*” ] } ] }
AWS AppStream 2.0 Whats New for June 2018? AWS have updated AppStream 2.0 to introduce some fantastic new features in the May & June 2018 releases. Google Drive support has been added (selectable at fleet creation). It only supports G-suite enterprise and must be enabled in G-Suite to function, but it also has support for […]