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There are many ways to protect your EC2 Instances from being exposed to the Internet. One way is to give them private IP addresses and put them behind a public-facing Elastic Loadbalancer. This way your ELB spreads the incoming traffic across your Instances and your EC2 Instances do not have to directly be connected to…
If you have not yet seen the previous blog posts in this series, please read them here: Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 1: Accounts Structure Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 2: Enable Single Sign-On for AWS us Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 3: Enable CloudTrail on your AWS Accounts…
In the previous blog post I showed you how to enable CloudTrail on Project1 AWS Account (Account ID: 222222222222) and send it to a central S3 Bucket in another AWS Account (Account ID: 111111111111). Like always I definitely recommend you read the previous blog posts in the same series: Essential Guide to AWS Governance –…
This is a part of my AWS Governance series blog posts: Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 1: Accounts Structure Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 2: Enable Single Sign-On for AWS using ADFS 3.0 and configure Cross Account Access Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 4: Send CloudTrail logs from AWS…
This is your go-to short guide to learn about AWS VPC concepts. Unlike Azure, AWS offers you a wide range of features to configure networking. At first it might seem complicated but once understood, you feel more flexible in your design. In this article I am not writing about every little VPC feature. There are…
To know how to enable Single Sign-On for your AWS Account read my other blog post here: Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 2: Enable Single Sign-On for AWS using ADFS 3.0 and configure Cross Account Access Now that you have enabled SSO for your AWS Account, you need an easy way to: Log into…
In the previous post (Essential Guide to AWS Governance – Part 1) I wrote about the essential AWS Accounts you’d need to have solid governance on AWS. Now in this post I will write about the following topics in this order and I will try to add as much details as I can: Introduction to…
This is the first post in the “Essential Guide to AWS Governance” series. In this series I will drill down into different areas of governance on AWS. I will also provide in-depth recommendations and implementation guides to form a framework around an efficient and automated governance approach. If you are interested you can also see…
When you enable Single Sign-On (SSO) on your AWS account (using Microsoft ADFS), by default the user session duration is set to last for 60 minutes. You can increase it up to 12 hours. I am taking the steps below on ADFS 2.0 but the same procedure applies to ADFS 3.0: 1- Open the ADFS…