Brian Beach is a developer advocate, speaker, and author leading the Developer Experience community at AWS, helping teams improve productivity with infrastructure as code, DevOps, and generative AI.
132 articles from this blog
A guide on how to disable Intel Hyper-Threading Technology on Amazon Linux EC2 instances for specific workloads like HPC.
Guide to creating consistent Windows Server backups using AWS EBS Snapshots, Microsoft VSS, and AWS Systems Manager for scheduling.
A simple Python tutorial for sending emails using AWS SES with MIME formatting and helper functions.
A guide to using an AWS CloudFormation template for standardizing the configuration of new linked accounts, including security and administrative roles.
AWS explains its infrastructure and disaster preparedness to ensure high availability and reliability for hosted applications during major weather events.
A user's experience configuring and troubleshooting Amazon S3 backups from a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS, including cost-saving lifecycle policies.
A technical guide on configuring an AWS VPN connection with a Cisco router behind a home NAT, including configuration modifications for NAT traversal.
Guide to using AWS ElastiCache with RedisSessionStateProvider for scalable, shared ASP.NET session state, eliminating sticky sessions.
A technical guide on configuring Squid proxy to control and route access to Amazon S3 buckets and Yum repositories within an AWS VPC.
A guide to programmatically identify the Windows OS version on AWS EC2 instances without logging in, using PowerShell and system logs.
Explains how to use AWS cross-account IAM roles and the AssumeRole API (Use-STSRole) in Windows PowerShell for multi-account strategies.
A guide to configuring a Linux swap device on AWS instances using Cloud-Init's cloud-config syntax for persistent setup.
Compares AWS Security Groups to traditional firewalls and outlines best practices for developing an effective security group policy.
A guide to pushing logs directly to AWS CloudWatch using the AWS CLI plugin, eliminating the need for a daemon or intermediate files.
A guide on using tcpdump to capture network traffic and sending the logs to AWS CloudWatch for debugging Apache server issues.
Explains AWS authentication options like root accounts and IAM users, focusing on security best practices and access control.
A technical guide on loading detailed AWS billing data into a SQL Server data warehouse for advanced cost analysis.
A technical guide on using AWS tags and PowerShell scripts to automate cost allocation and chargeback for multiple project teams.
Explores using AWS Import/Export to bulk migrate VMware/Hyper-V VMs to EC2, bypassing slow uploads with shipped drives and PowerShell.
A technical guide on writing custom log messages to the EC2 console/System Log for debugging Windows AMI builds on AWS.
