Creating a secure URL with an expiration date from S3

Here’s a cool trick you can do with S3: you can generate a URL with an “expires” timestamp that will only be good until that timestamp.
Although there are a number of potential uses for this, I generally do it instead of emailing…

Determining if an EC2 instance has a SQL license

Configuration Management and the Cloud — the Operations One-Two Punch

How to use Lambda for CloudFormation Custom Resources in AWS Regions that don’t support Lambda — Part 2

Shared filesystems in AWS, part 1: intro

Shared filesystems have been a part of my IT world for as long as I’ve been working in…

How to use Lambda for CloudFormation Custom Resources in AWS Regions that don’t support Lambda — Part 1

VMware Cloud on AWS…what?

OK, first off, I’ll admit I totally called it wrong: when I read that a VMware-AWS partnership was in the works…

How not to architect your AWS solution

[This is the first in what will be a series of posts about infrastructure and cloud…

Traditional Clustering in the Cloud, part 1: introduction

Agile was the best thing to ever happen to Ops

Who here remembers this method of application deployment?

1. “Code freeze” — everybody checks in what they’re finished with and doesn’t check in anything until deployment is complete.