Amazon Web Services (AWS) Posts - Page 13

While managing your resources on AWS, you may need accessing services programmatically. You may need to get information about an instance or modify some attribute. In some cases, you may need a cron job that runs every hours or once a day. For example, it can be a job getting the name of the current master node in an ElastiCache Redis cluster.

Writing Python scripts is an easy way to access and use your AWS resources. Besides, you can use Python for coding your AWS Lambda functions. In this blog post, I will give a simple example to listing VPC components using a Python script.

Continue reading the Accessing AWS Resources Using Python Scripts blog post.

In our Ruby on Rails web applications, we use Amazon S3 to store files. Uploading files to Amazon S3 buckets via HTTP requests requires signing the request. The current recommended, and safe signing method is Signature Version 4, and AWS regions opened after January 30, 2014, such as London and Frankfurt, only support this version.

In this blog post, I will try to explain how to sign HTTP requests for Amazon S3 uploads in a Rails application and make requests by using AngularJS ng-file-upload module.

Continue reading the Signing S3 Upload Requests With Signature Version 4 in a Rails and AngularJS Application blog post.