My AWS Musings

I was looking for a simple script that creates a new ebs snapshot and deletes all the previous snapshots except a few newest snapshots. I found a script written in php called manage snapshots at http://www.thecloudsaga.com/aws-ec2-manage-snapshots/. But the script only deletes snapshots. It does not create a new snapshot. That is why I decided to [...]

A sunny Sunday morning. I am preparing to go out with my wife. And suddenly a pingdom alert comes to my phone. The website is down! I run to my ubuntu desktop and hurriedly open ylastic, amazon aws console, splunk etc. Console shows nothing unusual. The instance on which the website is running is shown [...]