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Keeping your Cloud Costs in Check: Automated AWS Cost Charts and Alerting
Building and deploying infrastructure in the cloud is (by design) a very simple process. If a team is not being careful in their deployments, it can also become an expensive process. The… -
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AWS Service Quotas: Discovering Where you Stand
We’ve written a few posts in the last week about AWS Service Quotas. These are restrictions on services that are set by AWS (but can often be increased). If our first post,…
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AWS Service Quotas, or AWS has a LOT of Services!
In our recent post, we unveiled unSkript Actions that can query AWS Service Quotas. Service quotas are limits imposed by AWS on how many times a certain AWS feature can be used. …
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Security Checkup: Force AWS Load Balancers to redirect to HTTPS
When on a hike – you always want to take the most secure path, and not risk taking an unsafe route. With so many features now in the Cloud, it can be…
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Extending unSkript Actions: Quick Customizations of ‘Off the Shelf’ Code
unSkript has hundreds of built-in Actions that allow you to quickly build integrated Runbooks with popular Cloud providers, databases, and more. But sometimes, the supplied Actions are not exactly what you are…
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Will AI replace us? Using ChatGPT to create Python Actions for unSkript
Over the last few weeks, ChatGPT has been the buzz of the development world. One of the biggest questions that has been asked is “Is the AI coming to replace developers?” Will…
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Managing your Cloud Costs with CloudOps Automation Part 1: Identifying Your Resources with Tags
Moving systems to the cloud makes a lot of sense operationally – letting the experts take care of the infrastructure, and let us build what we need to make our company successful.…
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Managing your AWS bill Part 1: EC2 instances
In today’s cloud centric world, there is a monthly dread around the time your cloud bill arrives in your inbox. In a recent post, we walked through how to automate the creation…
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Automate the triviality in AWS using unSkript
Introduction This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate… -
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Automating the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 3)
This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate common… -
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Automating the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 2)
This week, AWS is celebrating all that is AWS at their RE:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Here at unSkript, we are celebrating all that is AWS by highlighting how to automate common… -
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Automate the AWS Identity Lifecycle with unSkript (Part 1)
This week we are celebrating AWS re:Invent by highlighting common AWS tasks that are ripe for automation. In our first three posts for re:Invent week, we’ll build and extend some basic identity… -
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Rotating AWS Access Keys for Enhanced Security
Cloud adoption is going on everywhere. One of the first things users learn when onboarding into their shiny new AWS cloud account is access controls! To consume cloud with AWS cli, access…
