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Authored by Chris Fregly: Former Netflix Streaming Platform Engineer, AWS Certified Solution Architect and Purveyor of fluxcapacitor.com.
Ahead of the upcoming 2nd annual re:Invent conference, inspired by Simone Brunozzi’s recent presentation at an AWS Meetup in San Francisco, and collected from a few of my recent Fluxcapacitor.com consulting engagements, I’ve compiled a list of 10 useful time and clock-tick saving tips about AWS.
1) Query AWS resource metadata
Can’t remember the EBS-Optimized IO throughput of your c1.xlarge cluster? How about the size limit of an S3 object on a single PUT? awsnow.info is the answer to all of your AWS-resource metadata questions. Interested in integrating awsnow.info with your application? You’re in luck. There’s now a REST API, as well!
Note: These are default soft limits and will vary by account.
2) Tame your S3 buckets
Delete an entire S3 bucket with a single CLI command:
aws s3 rb s3://<bucket-name> --force
Recursively copy a local directory to S3:
aws s3 cp <local-dir-name> s3://<bucket-name> --region <region-name> --recursive
3) Understand AWS cross-region dependencies
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