Many time to secure our Windows server, we have to change the Default RDP port to some Custom port. Which is also a good practice to secure the servers. Today we will learn, how to change the Default RDP port (3389 port) to your Custom port. To change the RDP port, please follow the below steps: Connect to your Windows …

We all need a monitoring tool to monitor our infrastructure. But to purchasing a monitoring tool will be costly. Today we will learn, how can we configured our own monitoring tool with a most popular open-source tool "Zabbix". Lets start installing Zabbix in Centos7. Let Assuming you have a Centos 7 Linux server. Step …

Accessing Your RI Purchase Recommendations and Identifying Opportunities for Cost Optimization When to choose to move in the cloud. The first thing comes in our mind is "How much it will cost, how can we utilized the resources and How can I monitor my Billing and optimize my billing". Now without any third-party tool, …

Today we will learn, How to install "atop" and "sysbench" in RHEL 7.X. Step 1: First update the packages: 1> yum update -y Step 2: Enable EPEL repo: 1> cd /tmp 2> wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 3> ls *.rpm Step 3: Install "ATOP" 1> yum install atop -y Step 4: Install …

EC2 instances(Linux servers) don’t have password-based authentication by default. You have to use the SSH key to connect your Linux instances. But in some cases, you want to use password-based authentication for your ec2 instances. Or you want your users to access the server using password-based authentication. In this …

Today we will learn, How to enable the enhanced networking (ENA) in Centos/RHEL/Amazon Linux EC2 instances. Before moving further, un the following command to upgrade the kernel to the latest version:: 1 ▶ sudo yum upgrade kernel -y Now, Here are the steps that We have to taken in order to enable ENA: Step 1. Ensure …

Today we will create an AWS Instance(EC2) AMI backup using Lambda and Cloudwatch. So that we can automate the AMI creation process as per our requirement. Please follow the below steps to achieve this. Step 1: Create IAM policy for an IAM Role. Copy the below policy and paste it in your IAM policy. 1{ 2 "Version": …

Today I will show you, how you can start and stop your AWS RDS instance using Lambda and Cloudwatch. Step 1: Create a Policy which has RDS, start-stop permission and has Cloudwatch permission. Create new Policy and paste the below policy in it: 1{ 2 "Version": "2012-10-17", 3 "Statement": [ 4 { 5 "Effect": "Allow", 6 …

Today we will upgrade our old m4.large RHEL instance to m5.large RHEL instance. But before doing this activity, we have to check if our instance is compatible or not. As C5,M5 instances support the next generation Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) technology. The C4,M4 instance use the Intel 82599 VF interface for enhanced …