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I spent some time on this in the week and there was some wrestle involved in setting up an Elastic Network Interface to be used with an autohealing EC2 instance, I thought it would be worth sharing the pattern if someone has to design a service in a similar fashion. If designed correctly, a new instance will reassociate to the address in the event of an instance termination and the consuming entities can keep querying the newly instantiated service on the instance. [Read More]

Thought I’d take the time to consolidate some of the learnings I’ve made along the way when making queries against an AWS account using the command line interface. Originally I came from a development background and did most of my automation scripts as a combination of Python 2.7, Boto3 and Fabric. While I still see these as having their place when managing complex objects or performing heavier string manipulation I’ve found you can get a long way with a combination of Bash scripting, AWS CLI and Cloudformation templates. [Read More]