Tag Archives: s3

Real Backups On The Cheap

So you have your data on the “cloud” – on Dropbox or GDrive folders – and you believe you’ve done a decent job of safe-guarding your precious files, while really you’ve only saved your files against total computer or hard-drive … Continue reading

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AWS S3 Bucket Policy to Only Allow Encrypted Object Uploads

Amazon S3 supports two types of encryption (server-side-encryption or SSE) for security of data at rest — AES256, and AWS/KMS. AES256 is termed as S3-managed encryption keys [SSE-S3], whereas, KMS is termed, well, SSE-KMS where in the customer manages their … Continue reading

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DC/OS Exhibitor on S3 – Issues & Workarounds

If you want basic resiliency around your DC/OS master nodes when hosting them on AWS, you’ll want to have Exhibitor store its data in AWS S3. In order to do so, you’ll want to grant S3 IAM roles to your … Continue reading

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S3 access from VPC or Corporate IP

If you’ve been wanting to allow HTTP access to your favorite S3 bucket from your VPC and/or from your corporate LAN’s public IP, then this blog could help make your job easier. At the end of this, you will be … Continue reading

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Simple Howto: AWS IAM Instance Profiles

For those of you looking to set up applications to run on EC2 instances without having to put credentials on the machines, there is an option. AWS has a great feature for exactly this purpose, and it’s called IAM Instance … Continue reading

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