Disable AWS Free Tier Usage Alerts

aws ec2 describe-instances --output text --query 'Reservations[].Instances[?!not_null(Tags[?Key == `aws:autoscaling:groupName`].Value)] | [].[InstanceId]' | xargs -L1 -t aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --disable-api-termination --instance-id...

1. Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface

2. Show existing certificates to test if the AWS Cli is working:

   $ aws iam list-server-certificates
   {
     "ServerCertificateMetadataList": [...
   

Getting the whole bucket size

aws s3 ls s3://$BUCKETNAME/ --recursive --human-readable --summarize | tail -n2

Tail is used because otherwise all files will be printed on screen (but you may want that for some reason).

Getting...

I'm creating certificate requests with this command:

openssl req -new -out www.example.com.csr -keyout www.example.com.key -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes

When I try to upload the certificate to AWS IAM I get this error:

$ aws iam upload-se...

aws rds describe-db-instances | jq '.[][] | select(.DeletionProtection == false) | .DBInstanceIdentifier' | xargs -L1 -t aws rds modify-db-instance --deletion-protection --db-instance-identifier

If you try to restart you may encouter the problem that your networking connection gets shutdown but not start again. Here is the right way to restart networking on FreeBSD:

service netif restart && service routing restart

Example

collectd5 in version 5.9.0 is broken and you upgraded it everywhere. But because it's FreeBSD it does not restart running services. After every old version is removed from /var/cache/pkg you restarted collectd and it does not s...

A convenient way to test SNS Subscription Filter Policies is using an email address as the subscription endpoint. However, for this to work when the filter is applied to the `...

We have observed Lenovo laptops with nvidia graphics losing performance after they have been in use for a few minutes. While we have not been able to pinpoint exactly what triggered the performance loss, we have found it mostly correlated with hig...