Alan Williamson, Author at TriNimbus
Customizing EC2 Systems Manager Run Commands

Customizing EC2 Systems Manager Run Commands

Previously I wrote a blog post about using Using Run Command for Adhoc Operations to showcase efficiently managing remote systems at scale. While the approach in that post is extremely flexible, it also has some challenges. The scripts had no restrictions on what...
Using Run Command for Adhoc Operations

Using Run Command for Adhoc Operations

One of my favorite AWS Services that I don’t hear much discussion about over the last year is EC2 Run Command (part of the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager suite). This is a very versatile tool that has gotten incremental features added over the last year to make it a...
We Want Amazon Web Services, Where Do We Start?

We Want Amazon Web Services, Where Do We Start?

The overhead of acquiring and maintaining in-house data centers has small to large businesses searching for cost-effective, cloud-based software and hardware infrastructure replacements. These avoid capital expenditures while returning time otherwise spent on server...