A quick Google search reveals that there are quite a few different approaches for automatically creating snapshots for EC2 images (such as here, here and here). All of these are rather difficult to do. Thankfully, after some more searching around I found a great way to schedule regular snapshots using AWS CloudWatch. CloudWatch supports a built-in … Continue reading Automatically Make Snapshots for EC2
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AWS Lambda: Cross-account pass role is not allowed.
Today I came across the following exception while working with the AWS SDK for Amazon Lambda: com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException: Cross-account pass role is not allowed. (Service: AWSLambda; Status Code: 403; Error Code: AccessDeniedException; Request ID: xxx) At first I was a bit puzzled where this exception might come from; but when I found out what the problem … Continue reading AWS Lambda: Cross-account pass role is not allowed.
What is Amazon Flourish (for AWS)
According to a recent article on the New Stack Blog, the Amazon Serverless Team (responsible for instance for Amazon Lambda) is about to release a new open source product called 'Floruish'. Currently, there are very few details available on this product. These are some points I could find: It will be a platform to manage … Continue reading What is Amazon Flourish (for AWS)
Bulk Change ACL for Amazon S3
Using bucket policies, it is easy to set ACL settings for all new objects that are uploaded to Amazon S3. However, I wanted to remove 'public' read rights for a whole bunch of objects at the same time and such policies do not apply to objects that are already stored on S3. I found an easy … Continue reading Bulk Change ACL for Amazon S3
