Cyber security, infotech
For workloads that don’t require a consistent CPU performance but do experience spikes in service demand, Amazon’s AWS EC2 service offers Burstable Performance Instances. Their competitive pricing can contribute to considerable savings and improve service availability, but how do you know if you are getting a good deal? You don’t, unless you are able to verify your CPU credits usage and the remaining balance. Here is how to figure out what’s really going on.
Expanding an EBS volume is not quite as easy as recreating it from a snapshot with a larger volume size. It involves a few more steps.
Amazon’s shiny new managed VPC NAT Gateway on AWS (unveiled today) can be translated into plain English as NAT (Network address Translation) as a service. You might wonder who is going to need it if a VPC was just fine as of yesterday.
If you are currently using NAT to connect your EC2 instances that are isolated inside a VPC to the outside world, then the answer is: you are. Even if your instances connect directly to the Internet, you might still be better off with the service than without it.
Leaving your current web hosting provider for the cloud experience may feel rather scary, but in reality, it is a liberating experience.
Just think of all the freedom you gain to run your web services your way: the ability to use any DNS provider of your choice, any certificate authority (such as, most notably, the disruptive force of Letsencrypt), install software to your heart’s content, scale up and out on demand, in other words, be in charge of your own services and infrastructure. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make the leap.