On 12th January 2022, AWS announced a new AWS Management Console home page. I think it’s a step in the right direction. Here’s why. Old console home page Lack of Customization In the old console home page, you had a lack of customization. You cannot move, resize, remove any elements on the console page. The only… Continue reading New AWS Management Console Home is a Step in the Right Direction
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AWS VPC IPAM Tutorial – The Better Terraform Way (7 Steps Faster)
In my previous post covering the basics of AWS VPC IPAM, I promised some Terraform code samples. My Terraform code sample will be based on the AWS VPC IPAM tutorial from the official documentation. As you can already see from the title, the “Terraform way” is 7 steps shorter than the official tutorial and undoubtedly better. The… Continue reading AWS VPC IPAM Tutorial – The Better Terraform Way (7 Steps Faster)
AWS VPC IPAM Basics & Why You Need to be Careful
During AWS re:Invent 2021, David Brown, Amazon EC2 VP, announced Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Why VPC IPAM? VPCs with overlapping CIDRs cannot be peered, and is usually resolved only by destroying and recreating the VPC with the correct CIDR. If there are many existing workloads in the VPC, this process will incur painful migration effort… Continue reading AWS VPC IPAM Basics & Why You Need to be Careful
Default Tags for Terraform AWS Provider is finally here
Default tags for Terraform AWS provider had been in the works since I started using Terraform a couple of years ago. Now that it is finally here, does it live up to its expectation? What is Default Tags? Default Tags allows its user to tag all AWS resources that support tags with the exception of… Continue reading Default Tags for Terraform AWS Provider is finally here
Excited to join the AWS Community Builders program!
Back in August, I applied to join the AWS Community Builders program after hearing about it from Daniel Muller in the AWS User Group Singapore Slack channel (invitation link). This morning, I opened my email inbox to this: What is the AWS Community Builders program? The AWS Community Builders program offers technical resources, mentorship, and… Continue reading Excited to join the AWS Community Builders program!