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.
142 articles from this blog
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.
A guide to automating hostname configuration for Windows AMIs using PowerShell and EC2 tags during the SysPrep specialize phase.
A technical guide on using PowerShell to download and analyze AWS billing reports from S3, focusing on cost and usage data.
A technical guide on using AWS CloudTrail, S3, SNS, SQS, and PowerShell to process and route AWS API event logs for automation.
A guide to configuring Fiddler as a proxy server to debug HTTP/HTTPS traffic from an iPhone or iPad on a Windows machine.
Explains how IIS handles SSL with host headers, focusing on wildcard certificates and resolving common HTTPS binding errors.
A technical guide on creating a full trust proxy for SharePoint 2010 to allow sandboxed code to write to the Windows Event Log.
Analysis of how multi-tenant architecture dramatically reduces IT infrastructure costs compared to physical servers and virtualization.
A technical guide on using PowerShell to create and configure an anonymous web application in SharePoint 2010, including site collection setup.
A technical tutorial on using PowerShell to create and manage SharePoint 2010 site collections, including separate content databases.
A technical tutorial on using PowerShell to create a web application and site collection in SharePoint 2010.
