March 2023– date –

【Automation runbook to create an AMI for an instance and copy it to another region】 One of the AWS SAA questions is about designing resilient architectures. AMI can be copied to another region. You can copy an Amazon Machine Image (AMI...

【Introduction to FSx for Lustre using CloudFormation】 FSx for Lustre is one of the managed storage services offered by AWS. FSx for Lustre makes it easy and cost-effective to launch and run the popular, high-performance Lustre file sys...

【Periodically delete old AMIs - SSM Automation runbook version】 In the following pages, we have shown how to use DLM to periodically delete old AMIs. https://awstut.com/en/2023/03/19/introduction-to-data-lifecycle-manager-create-ebs-sn...

【Periodically delete old AMIs - Step Functions version】 For periodic acquisition and deletion of AMIs, AWS provides DLM (Data Lifecycle Manager). https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/snapshot-lifecycle.html The following...

【Introduction to Data Lifecycle Manager - Create EBS Snapshot/AMI periodically】 Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM) can be used to automate instance and EBS backups. You can use Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager to automate the creation, retentio...

【Use EventBridge rule to run SSM Automation runbook periodically】 On the following pages, we have shown you how to run the SSM Automation runbook. https://awstut.com/en/2023/02/19/create-ami-using-ssm-automation-one-time-scheduled-en T...

【Iterate using the Map state in Step Functions】 The Map state allows for iterative processing. Use the Map state to run a set of workflow steps for each item in a dataset. The Map state's iterations run in parallel, which makes it poss...

【Two ways to simulate IAM policies - IAM Policy Simulator / --dryrun】 This section describes how to check in advance whether the IAM policy you have prepared has sufficient privileges when executing AWS APIs, or how they actually work....

【Use EventBridge to execute Step Functions periodically】 EventBridge can be used to periodically run the Step Functions state machine. You can execute an AWS Step Functions state machine in response to an event pattern or on a schedule...

【Create RDS Cross-Region Read Replica using CloudFormation】 One of the AWS SAA questions is about designing resilient architectures. In the following pages, we introduced RDS read replicas. https://awstut.com/en/2023/01/09/rds-read-rep...