Coffee, IT and Nerdices

Hi everyone ! How u guys doing today ? We all know very well cloud computing has a lot of benefits but, we should also say that when you get your bill, you may be surprised if you are not enough diligent and organised. Remember, you pay for what you use, for as long as you use it. I will bring up a real case a friend of mine was tellling me the other day. He works for an university in Canada and a lot of users are professors. They do a lot of research and as a result, they need multiple machines and , many times, very robust machines. In the cloud world, this can cost a lot of money. As we know, you pay for what you use. Can you imagine how the bill can go high if you don't manage those machines very well ? He was telling me how surprised they were when, a few times,  they got the bill and they found out, many machines had been let running when there was no need and as a result, the bill was insanely high. Well, in this case, systems manager can help us out. We can set

Hey guys !!! Hope you are doing pretty good? Today's post is supposed to be a quick one. I am going to start with a real case scenario. I was working for an Enterprise Managed Services provider and because EMS supports multiple customers, you end up with a bunch of environments, credentials, diagrams that make your life a lot harder whenever you need to jump on a server to troubleshoot something. This tough task though, can be easier if you have the ability to leverage AWS Systems Manager in your environment. What systems manager allows you to do is , basically, access a shell of a machine without having to rdp or ssh to it, have an inventory of your fleet, and , one of the coolest features, running commands/scripts against multiple servers at once, again, without even knowing an username or password. My assignment was to identify which servers were still configured to use a DNS server that we were going to decommission. The challenge was, not all servers were part of a