I recently needed to perform a major version upgrade to several AWS Aurora instances, however ran into issues when trying to create a new instance by restoring from a snapshot. I won’t go into how to perform the upgrade, that’s available in the AWS docs here: Upgrading AWS Aurora DB …

It’s a good idea to rotate your AWS Access Keys regularly, here is a simple script that makes the process easy and painless. For a lot of engineers it’s a compliance requirement to rotate keys on a regular cadence, it also takes a little effort and requires us to remember. The idea …

When automating your infrastructure many folks use script files to manage the provisioning of resources. In Amazon Web Service (AWS) this often happens in a CloudFormation template. Within that template is almost always a UserData section that allows the user to execute a script during the …