Using AWS CDK to create IAM roles with C#

Taswar Bhatti April 20, 2021 No Comments

In this section we will talk about Identity and Access Management – IAM in short. I will show you an example of using AWS CDK to create IAM roles with C# and extending our current solution so that an IAM Role is ready with the correct permission to use. We will mainly focus on IAM Role and Policy. But first….

What is IAM?

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. IAM can help securely control individual and group access to your AWS resources. You can create and manage user identities, or IAM users, roles, policies and grant permissions for them to access the resources you wish to … Read the rest “Using AWS CDK to create IAM roles with C#”

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Using AWS CDK Parameter Store with C#

Taswar Bhatti April 15, 2021 No Comments

In this section we will talk about Parameter Store what it is and why we would want to use it? I will show you an example of using AWS CDK Parameter Store with C# and extending our current solution.

What is Parameter Store

AWS Parameter Store is actually a capability of AWS Systems Manager. The AWS Parameter store provides secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management. One can store data such as database connection strings, passwords, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs, or even license codes as parameter values. There is also one additional advantage in parameter store where you can store values as plain text or encrypted data since it is also integrated with Secret Manager.
For more info on Parameter Store you can view the AWS Documentation (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/systems-manager-parameter-store.html)

Why would I want to

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Using AWS CDK to create RDS Database Instance with C#

Taswar Bhatti April 12, 2021 No Comments

Now that we have learned how to create a VPC with C# using AWS CDK, let’s talk about how do we create RDS Database Instance with C# using AWS CDK.

What is Amazon RDS?

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in simple terms is easy to set up, operate, and scale relational database. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. When we use Amazon RDS, we can set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Amazon RDS also supports several different database engines, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

What do we plan to build?

We will be using Microsoft SQL Server instance in the example below, you can use any other RDS instance of your choice also, but I thought SQL … Read the rest “Using AWS CDK to create RDS Database Instance with C#”

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Using AWS CDK to create a VPC in C#

Taswar Bhatti April 7, 2021 No Comments

I wanted to start a series of how to use AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) to create infrastructure on Amazon. In our first example we will tackle the fundamental of a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). We will be using AWS CDK to create a VPC in C#. You may wonder what about CloudFormation json or yaml files that Amazon allows one to create infrastructure that you maybe very comfortable in doing it, is CDK replacing that?

What about CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation enables you to do many things, below are some of the things that the CDK allows us to do. (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/latest/guide/home.html)

Rest assure that Cloudformation is here to stay and CDK is not a way to replace it, but think of it in terms of a SDK for you to create infrastructure in the language of your choice.… Read the rest “Using AWS CDK to create a VPC in C#”

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How to increase the disk size of a Windows EC2 machine?

Taswar Bhatti December 12, 2020 No Comments

I needed to increase my disk size of my Windows 2016 server on AWS EC2. I though I will share this just in case it can help you or myself in the future on How to increase the disk size of a Windows EC2 machine?. First thing first you need to increase the volume space that you have, easiest way is to use the aws console.

Below I have logged in and am on the windows ec2 machine and have clicked on storage tab to find the volume I wish to increase.

Click on the storage volume link and it will take you to the storage section on the console. Right click and choose Modify Volume.
A window will show up like below, enter the size of the volume you wish to increase it into.

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