If you receive the following error message when trying to run pymysql on AWS Lambda: Unable to import module “lambda_function”: No module named “pymysql” then… Read More »Unable to import module “lambda_function”: No module named “pymysql”
Usually, it’s quite easy to delete an AWS WAF, or Web ACL. But sometimes you may come across the following error when attempting to delete… Read More »How to delete an AWS WAF – Web ACL
Basic instructions on how to set up an SSH server on an Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 EC2 instance. Step 1 – Create a New User Step 2… Read More »How to Setup an SSH Server on AWS
The AWS CLI provides the ability to use the wide range of Amazon Web Services tools and services straight from the command-line. However, sometimes it’s… Read More »How to setup the AWS CLI for multiple profiles
If you need to get the size of an AWS S3 folder, or even an entire bucket, you can do so with the following command:… Read More »How to get the size of an AWS S3 bucket
The requests module for Python is very useful in helping simplify HTTP/s requests from Python, but how would you use it in an AWS Lambda… Read More »How to make an HTTP Request in AWS Lambda using Python
If you are getting the mysterious error: [ERROR] InsufficientPrivilege: permission denied for schema errors Then you can easily resolve this by running the following SQL:… Read More »Resolving InsufficientPrivilege Errors in Redshift
It is only possible to alter VARCHAR columns, and only under the following circumstances: You can not alter a column with compression encodings BYTEDICT, RUNLENGTH,… Read More »How to increase column size in Redshift database tables
If you are trying to get an AWS Lambda added attached to a VPC, but get the error message: The provided execution role does not… Read More »Solution! The provided execution role does not have permissions to call CreateNetworkInterface on EC2
AngularJS is a Javascript Framework that allows you to create dynamic front-end web applications easily. I have traditionally packaged these applications through NodeJS, and Grunt… Read More »How to Host an AngularJS site on AWS S3
Sending emails using Python and AWS’ SES service is really easy. They provide an SMTP server that you can authenticate against and send email programmatically… Read More »How to send emails using Python and AWS SES SMTP
You do not have permission to access the specified resource. If you are seeing this error appears up when trying to delete or detach a… Read More »Unable to Detach AWS Network Interface
Docker images are usually stored on Docker Hub, but AWS’s Elastic Container Registry can also be used. It’s a great solution and this post teaches… Read More »How to Push Docker Images to AWS ECR
Squid is a proxy software that allows a computer without internet access to proxy through another computer that does have internet access. Squid is very… Read More »Squid Proxy behind a Load Balancer on AWS
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, or simply S3 for short, is a product designed for storing objects (or files are most people know them) in their… Read More »How big is Amazon S3 really?