Tag: Amazon Web Services

Ages ago, before the documentary channels on satellite and cable degenerated into today’s freak shows of bounty hunters, “reality” Prima Donnas, conspiracies and the paranormal, they carried programming that could actually teach you something. Shows like the multiple incarnations of Connections contained solid history and the science behind the developments being discussed. One thing I […]

Another month, another minor AWS outage, and people still don’t get it. Starting about 11 AM on October 22, 2012, a small percentage of the EBS (or Elastic Block Storage) volumes within a single availability zone in the US-East-1 region began to suffer degraded performance. The problem degraded further with ripple effects on services that […]

Last week I attended Learning Tree’s “Implementing a Private Cloud Solution” course at our Reston Education Center. It is a great course for anyone seeking in-depth technical details on how to build their own on-premises private cloud. The course also covers using a hosted private cloud solution and building secure connections to your own data […]

One issue that arose from my planned switch to serving images from Amazon S3 was: how to deal with HTTPS? Hitherto, that’s been a non-issue. I used a relative path for images so the switch between HTTP and HTTPS happened automatically and painlessly. Now, of course, there is a potential problem. I have to use […]

In my last post, I looked at how you can use the AWS SDK to upload images to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). The only problem is that the storage bucket is private by default. If you try and access your image, even through the AWS interface, you get the following error: You can make […]