Month: May 2020

AWS EC2 instance metadata and userdata

Instance Metadata: Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance  Quick background: Instance metadata is data about an instance that can be used to manage the instance.Can be viewed by anyone who has access to the instance.Must not be used to store sensitive information such as … Continue reading AWS EC2 instance metadata and userdata →

AWS S3 Access Management

In Amazon AWS S3, access type is private by default for buckets and objects resources which makes the access control much simple and secure as it allows only granular access to these resources for a role. Only the resource owner of AWS account, can access the resource. The resource owner can optionally grant access permissions to … Continue reading AWS S3 Access Management →

Azure Log Analytics Custom Log Configuration using PowerShell

Using PowerShell to setup custom log ingestion gives a great flexibility to automate the whole process specially when you need to setup custom logs in bulk. To ingest logs (text files in .log format) from Windows and Linux machines to Azure Log Analytics workspace, you can create and configure Custom Logs as data source in … Continue reading Azure Log Analytics Custom Log Configuration using PowerShell →

Using Azure Hybrid Connections in Azure Functions

Provisioning a cloud service is quick and easy, but connecting on-premises resources to the cloud services always comes with certain challenges. In this article, i will explain the benefits of using Azure Hybrid Connections on connecting a function in Azure to on-premises server. The Hybrid connection works by creating an outbound TCP call (uses TLS … Continue reading Using Azure Hybrid Connections in Azure Functions →

How to Backup Azure Virtual Machine using Recovery Services Vault

To backup a virtual machine data in Azure, you store that data in an Azure resource called a Recovery Services vault. The benefit of having the Recovery Services vault integrated into the Settings menu of most Azure services makes it easy to back up data. It is easy to back up multiple virtual machines by … Continue reading How to Backup Azure Virtual Machine using Recovery Services Vault →