Month: February 2018

Amazon AWS Securty Groups / Virtual Firewall General Guidelines

Amazon AWS Securty Groups / Virtual Firewall General Guidelines If using VPC (not EC2-Classic), Security Groups are owned by VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) Security Groups are applied to EC2 instances  (zero to many) Security Groups cannot span regions Instances belonging to the default security group can talk to each other. Instances belonging to a custom …

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AWS Amazon Static Website Hosting – Error adding Route 53 alias record

AWS Amazon Static Website Hosting – Error adding Route 53 alias record S3 The record set could not be saved because: – Alias Target contains an invalid value. The bucket name has to match the alias name you are defining exactly. So for example: if your bucket is named “mydomain.com” then the alias name has …

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Want Your VirtualBox VMs To Talk To Each Other and Access The Internet Without Bridged Adapter

VirtualBox supports the following types of adapters (and others) that I use frequently for many VMs. Bridged Adapter – Makes the VirtualBox VM part of your local network. Host-Only-Adapter – Makes the VirtualBox VM part of a virtual network on the VM Host. NAT – Can get out to the network – but your IP is …

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Proxy (forward proxy) versus Reverse Proxy

Generally, a forward proxy is used to funnel traffic originating inside a business network to the outside / internet. A reverse proxy does the opposite by receiving protecting or buffering a 2nd server(s) inside a network from requests originating from outside the network.  Generally, a proxy receives requests on an internal network from the internet.

Installing, configuring, and starting noip DUC Dynamic Update Client For EC2 Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7

# Installing, configuring, and starting noip DUC Dynamic Update Client For EC2 Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 7, RHEL 7, Oracle Linux 7. For those who have not heard and care, AWS released an AMI Linux 2 image for EC2 – that is systemd based & appears to be RHEL 7 based in December of 2017. …

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AWS Authentication and Authorization – avoid using root user on AWS console by defining IAM users and policies

How to avoid using root user on AWS console by defining IAM users, policies, groups and roles. There are three principals that can authenticate and interact with AWS resources. They are the 1.) root AWS user, 2.) IAM users, and 3.) roles. When you first create an AWS account – you create a root AWS …

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Methods To Analyze Performance and Debug Oracle SQL and PL/SQL

Just a categorized list of Oracle performance tools at this stage… Oracle Enterprise Manager – OEM Tools – OEM 12 and forward AWR Reports – Historical Windows ASH Reports – Real Time SQL Advisor SQL Profiler – uses active or historical GUI Explain Plan Top Active SQL – under performance tab and then the grandfather …

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