AWS: A (short) journey of restoring EC2 instances from EBS snapshot

So I had a challenge on the other day to restore an EC2 instance from EBS Snapshots. I have worked with AMI and EBS for many years, but i have never tried this before.

How to use AWS SSM Parameter Store easily in Python

AWS just announced a new service AWS Secret Manager in SF Dev Summit (I was there at the announcement 😇), which is a cool service to help you to manage and rotate your secrets securely.

Python: Timezone and Daylight savings

Timezone is a hard problem. DST is even a harder problem. I found myself walking into problems and problems when I started using datetime in Python properly. So I decide to write a blog to share my experience.

“Naive” and “Aware”