Leah Erb

Breadcrumbs of a Data Engineering Student

How to Enable an EC2 Instance to Access Files on S3 Buckets

An Amazon EC2 instance needs to be given privileges and opened ports in order to access files on an Amazon S3 bucket. This post offers a quick reference, as well as a tutorial to walk you through setting up an EC2 and copying files between an EC2 and S3 bucket.

AWS Cost Estimation with CloudFormation CLI

`estimate-template-cost` is a nifty command for creating an estimate of costs associated with your AWS CFN template. Results are viewed in a browser window.

Google Community Speedrun Challenge

Google is hosting a month-long event for February 2020 called the Community Speedrun Challenge. It includes 4 week-long challenges (BigQuery Basics for Data Analysts, Kubernetes in the Google Cloud, Google Developer Essentials, Introduction to Cloud Run). And I’m on the leaderboard!!

Create an AWS Lambda Function using CloudFormation

With this tutorial, you learn the basics of AWS Lambda by creating a classic “Hello World” function. You’ll use CloudFormation from the command line to create the Lambda function, then manually invoke it to prove it works.

Getting Started with AWS CloudFormation

This step-by-step, hands-on AWS CloudFormation tutorial is ideal for beginners. You will create a simple CloudFormation stack containing a single resource. And you’ll be doing it twice: with AWS CloudFormation Console, then with AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

What is AWS CloudFormation?

If you have more than a few Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, it can get a little tricky managing them each individually.

AWS CloudFormation to the rescue!

Create EC2 Key Pairs Using AWS CLI

A key pair is required when connecting to an AWS EC2 instance. I’ll step you through how to create a key pair without having to go to the Amazon Management Console.

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