Rome AWS Meetup day
Saturday the 15th of October we leaved the comfort of our couches (have we already said we are a distributed team from all around Italy?) to leave to the glorious destination of Rome! The ancient town best known for the…
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Getting EC2 instance tags from the inside of a running instance
Getting informations on a running instance from the inside is a tedious task and it’s usually done in an insecure and error prone way. With this article we want to show you our way to get instance tags from the…
Amazon S3 point in time restore
It’s said necessity is the mother of invention and in this article we’ll show the reason why we initially wrote s3-pit-restore. Our infrastructure heavily rely on S3 object storage to store the several millions files our users everyday produce. S3…
Peering multiple VPCs with Ansible
Sometimes happens, as it happened to us, that you have one or more services you want to share between your VPCs. For us, the case was for an ELK stack that we use internally to monitor the state of our…
EC2 snapshots automating with Ansible
We were looking for a way to have our EC2 EBS volumes snapshotted on a daily basis. We already use AWS and Ansible, so the solution comes quite straightforward: Ansible + AWS = Daily Snapshots Our procedure works with Ansible >=…