When using EC2 instances with EBS backed storage, whether or not your instances are setup to delete their EBS volumes on termination can be a big deal — especially if […]

The other day I was working with a client and creating a CloudFormation template that used RDS instances within a VPC. I found that while creating the DB security group […]

Today I had an issue getting a good TLS connection from an OpenLDAP client to an OpenLDAP server on an EC2 instance using the packages supplied by Amazon. The problem […]

I recently learned a valuable lesson when setting up load balancing using an Elastic Load Balancer within a Virtual Private Cloud using public and private subnets and a NAT host. […]