by Zac | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog
(Seriously free SSL certificates this time) So I’ve written in the past about the push for HTTPS Everywhere and how Amazon was helping to tackle that goal (over here). Last year, Amazon added their Certificate Manager. It’s a really great tool and goes a... 
by Zac | Jan 30, 2016 | Blog
(Well, sorta free) If you’re anywhere around the web infrastructure world, then you’re likely familiar with the push for HTTPS everywhere. In the name of privacy, consumers and all sorts of privacy groups are demanding that websites communicate using... by Zac | Apr 27, 2015 | Blog
Today we will be talking about automating EC2 backups. Backups are boring and no one ever cares about them. Until you need them. It’s at that point that you wish you had setup some sort of automated backup system, because life goes by too quickly to do... by Zac | Nov 13, 2014 | Blog
First, let me start by saying that the Elastic Load Balancer is a pretty neat feature of Amazon Web Services. Straight from the Amazon ELB page: Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances in the... by Zac | May 15, 2014 | Blog
Userdata scripts are a powerful way to customize an Amazon Web Service AMI or instance. It’s goal is allow the administrator to tweak a generalized AMI into something very specific. On instance creation (only, take note that the userdata script will...