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Has recommended answerHaving a static IP when an AWS ECS connects to our on-prem services [closed]
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You will need to place the ECS instances in private subnets of your VPC, and create a NAT Gateway in a public subnet of your VPC. The private subnets will need a route to the NAT Gateway. Once you do ...
AWS - Send traffic from EIP with enabled inbound connection [closed]
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If you want multiple Amazon EC2 instances to send traffic that comes from the same IP address, then you will need a NAT Gateway or NAT Instance. You are correct that this would require the instances ...
Invoke aws lambda from a ec2 [closed]
It doesn't matter that the function is configured to run in the same VPC as the EC2 instance and use the same security group. Lambda functions aren't sitting there running 100% of the time and ...
Remote virtual desktop using AWS [closed]
It appears that you are wanting to 'appear' to be coming from different locations when accessing resources on the Internet. The easiest way to achieve this would be to use a VPN service that routes ...
How do I override default routes within my AWS VPC? [closed]
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I don't think "default route" is the correct term for what you are describing. That sounds more like a routing table thing, while what you are asking for is a DNS resolution feature. In any ...
Disable ECS Exec on a service
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Per the documentation for the AWS CLI, the flags to disable ECS exec is --disable-execute-command. Although, it is unclear why you think having ECS Exec enabled is the reason for the error you are ...
AWS IP Address for Lambda function
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Currently the source IP address will be the large pool of IP addresses that AWS uses for Lambda functions. Opening up that large pool of IPs would allow anybody else to write a Lambda function that ...
Are EC2 Instance Profile and Task Execution Role overlap in AWS ECS [closed]
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There is some overlap because ECS supports both EC2 and Fargate deployment types, and Fargate doesn't have instance profiles at all, so Fargate deployments have to have all those permissions assigned ...
AWS RDS Aurora (postgres engine) upgrade from 13.12 to 14.17
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The error I'm facing is snapshot name not found, which I'm assuming is happening because the final snapshot identifier is not able to create the snapshot in time, and when the snapshot identifier ...
Elastic Beanstalk app fails to deploy without public IPs on instances
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You currently have the instances deployed to public subnets, without public IP addresses assigned, so the instances have no access to the Internet. For an EC2 instance to have access to the Internet ...
How can I send using the default FROM address with AWS SDK (JavaScript) v3 for SES?
You are confusing the FROM address and the MAIL FROM address. If you read the first paragraph on the page you linked, you can see that they are two separate things: When an email is sent, it has two ...
A Lambda function that invoke another lambda function failed on cloud but working locally
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Check the Subnets assigned to each AWS Lambda function. If a Lambda function is connected to a VPC, then only private subnets should be assigned to Lambda functions. They can then use a NAT Gateway (...
AWS CLI error with delete objects recursively using include, exclude
I suspect that it looks at the provided name as the full path of the object rather than just the 'filename' portion. Try something like: --exclude "*" --include "*/...
Issues with email-AWS Lightsail
Amazon blocks port 25 connections to prevent spammers from abusing AWS. Opening the security group is not enough to remove this. You have to submit a request to AWS to have the restriction removed on ...
Sub Folders of S3 bucket - Bucket name must match the regex "^[a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]
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It sounds like you are trying to list S3 objects under a given key prefix and to do that you have accidentally provided the key prefix as a suffix on the bucket name, for example: src = s3.Bucket('...
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How to hide a specific DynamoDB attribute from the AWS Console?
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Is it possible to hide a specific attribute in the AWS Console for DynamoDB tables? No, it's not possible. The IAM policy you have in your question would restrict users from making specific queries ...
S3 Bucket returns status 403 when trying to access objects
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If Alexa is successfully invoking your AWS Lambda function, but the Lambda function is having problems accessing content from Amazon S3, then you should: Add a policy to the IAM Role that is assigned ...
reading data from AWS (S3/RDS/DyamoDb etc) from on-prem application [closed]
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You can certainly (and should!) access data stored in AWS from code sitting in your own on-premises applications. All AWS services have APIs and there are SDKs for all popular programming languages. ...
How to delete all objects that were created before a specific date in S3 using Lifecycle rule?
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Yes, this is default functionality for Amazon S3 Lifecycle policies. However, you do it by specifying an age (eg 180 days) rather than providing a specific date. From Managing the lifecycle of objects ...
How to connect to a Fargate container with ECS Exec? [closed]
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You have to set enable_execute_command = true in the task definition, and then redeploy the task. Stop the task and let the ECS service create a new one, or trigger a deployment that replaces the task....
Merging multiple aws iam roles for lambdas in terraform
It's unclear what you mean by "merging" the roles. If you have two roles, and you want one of the Lambda functions to use one role, and all the other Lambda functions to use the other role, ...
What is the Parameter to access s3 url only once
You cannot invalidate a pre-signed URL**. The pre-signed URL will simply expire at the designated time so it's a best practice to make the usable time short. ** without deleting the underlying object ...
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Is a NAT Gateway Required for NLB Health checks to instances in private subnets
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No, but yes. A NAT Gateway is used for outbound traffic from private subnets to the Internet. It is not used by a Load Balancer, which takes traffic from the Internet, sends it to the EC2 instances ...
Secrets management in IaC solutions for the cloud
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Terraform allows you to use a backend like AWS S3 for storing state files, which you can then configure to encrypt with a KMS key, create a bucket policy to restrict access, etc. Since Terraform v0.9, ...
AWS Lambda Endpoint URL Construction in a VPC
When a client invokes an AWS Lambda function, that client sends a signed API request to the AWS Lambda service's control plane via its public API endpoints (e.g. lambda.us-east-1.amazonaws.com). It ...
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How to copy a file to a new AWS EC2 Windows instance in Terraform
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A common method of performing an operation on an Amazon EC2 instance after it is launched is to Run commands when you launch an EC2 instance with user data input - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ...
Couldnt connect to RDS from Spring boot application in EC2
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The 'correct' configuration would be: A security group on the EC2 instance (app-sg) that permits All Outbound traffic A security group on the RDS database (rds-sg) that permits Inbound connections on ...
Advice on copying data from one s3 bucket to another storage
Copying objects to another bucket There are two ways you can copy objects to another bucket when they arrive: Use S3 Replication that will automatically copy the objects. It requires Versioning to be ...
Role switch option not present for AWS management account
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It appears that the Switch Role capability of the AWS Management Console does not appear when logged-in as the Root user. Logging in as an IAM User will cause it to appear. Sufficient permissions will ...
Terraform Single Resource Managed by 2 different statefiles [closed]
In both of your examples, you are importing a resource, and then adding another resource that references the imported resource. You aren't actually modifying the imported resource. The correct way to ...
How to Automatically Delete Untagged Images ("-") in an AWS ECR Repository?
You need to create an ECR lifecycle policy to handle this. In that documentation, there is an example policy that removes untagged images here: { "rules": [ { "...
Vue is not picking up env variables from aws ecs task container
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Your Vue app doesn't run on ECS. The files are simply served by the ECS server and they run in the client's web browser. The app picks up those environment variables at the time the app is built, not ...
Why can I set a default route to a nat gateway from a private subnet if this nat gateway is NOT in this private subnet? [closed]
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All subnets within an Amazon VPC can communicate with each other by default. Resources will reference other resources via private IP address. You can see this in the Route Table: Communication will ...
What metadata should I track in my database to keep track of my images stored in s3
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Amazon S3 is an object store. It supports the concept of folders, but the reality is that folders do not exist. If you store an object called Volunteers/Test/IMG_1372.jpeg, then the Key of the object ...
AWS Serverless function async: true
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What you are asking for doesn't make sense. The whole purpose of invoking a function asynchronously is to invoke it and let it run without waiting for the response. The code you are changing runs at ...
Deploy php app on AWS ECS cluster with ALB
It looks like you are deploying to ECS Fargate. ECS does not make container names available for hostname resolution by default. You are getting the error host not found in upstream "php:9000"...
Unable to Add Alias Record in Route 53 for AWS Cognito Custom Domain: CloudFront Alias Target Missing
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That CloudFront distribution will not show up in your account, and it will not show up in the auto-populated drop-down thing in Route53 since it isn't one of the CloudFront distributions in your ...
Getting no basic auth credential from AWS ECR when pulling image
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You ran docker login with your regular EC2 user account. Then you are trying to run the docker pull with sudo, which runs as the root EC2 account. The root EC2 account isn't logged into ECR. You ...
S3 Deletion Error: "The me-south-1 location constraint is incompatible for the region specific endpoint this request was sent to."
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When performing operations on a bucket in a particular Region (eg me-south-1), you must use a client that is configured to use that Region. You did not show us how you created the s3Client, but it is ...
Amazon EFS vs S3: Which is better for appending small chunks of data to large files? [closed]
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Amazon S3 is not suitable for your requirements because it is not possible to 'append' data to objects stored in S3. You would need to download, modify and upload the file -- however, you stated that ...
How can I create a TLS/SSL connection to a mongodb instance on AWS with a certificate made by certificate manager? Health check failed
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You have two security groups alb_sg and lb_sg that have the same security group rules. Then you have a mongodb_sg security group that only allows MongoDB traffic from the lb_sg security group. You are ...
Not able to get ECS fargate metrics on Datadog
Each ECS Fargate task instance is running in a completely isolated compute environment, so the only way for the Datadog agent to get access to the metrics it tracks is for it to run inside that same ...
How to check whether a s3 object is in ASCII text
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The file command does not know how to access Amazon S3. You will need to download the object first, the run file against the downloaded file.
Port Forwarding Through AWS Load Balancer
AWS Lambda responding with internal server error and not loging to Cloudwatch
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Function invocation timeout is a common problem for newcomers to AWS Lambda and for people deploying Lambda functions that need access to private resources, such as databases. You'll know that you ...
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Node Not Registering HTTPS from Nginx Reverse Proxy
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In nginx, you are overwriting the X-Forwarded-Proto header from the load balancer with this line: proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; The value of X-Forwarded-Proto might be HTTPS from the ...
How to fix Lambda function timeout when interacting with DynamoDB using AWS SDK v3 in Node.js?
The most obvious reason that your Lambda function times out when connecting to DynamoDB (or any internet endpoint) is that you configured the Lambda function to attach to a VPC. Unless you need access ...
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s3 touch not running from Lambda
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Your exception handler is incorrect and is causing a NameError, which causes your print statement to be skipped. I would, however, expect AWS Lambda to make an appropriate log indicating this failure. ...
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Firehose Stream Delivers to S3 in Uncompressed Format Despite Compression Enabled
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If you are downloading the file via a web browser, it is possible that the browser is auto-decompressing the file because browsers know how to handle web pages that are gzip-compressed. To fully test ...
Amazon QuickSight Connects Over Internet Instead of VPC to Public Redshift Cluster
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It appears that QuickSight is resolving the DNS name to a public IP address based on the fact that it is PubliclyAccessible = true. If you can, configure QuickSight to use the private IP address and ...
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