How to copy AMI permissions
Copying AMIs across regions is easy, but how do you copy permissions as well?
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Programmatically list AWS services
Someone recently asked about the best way to built an UI on top of the AWS APIs without hardcoding the services
Oneliners – AWS RDS get latest restorable time
This is a one line AWS CLI command to get the latest restorable time for an AWS RDS Instance. aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier "yourDBinstance" --query "DBInstances[*].[DBInstanceIdentifier,LatestRestorableTime]"
AWS Assume role [Powershell]
This is a handy 2 lines Powershell script to assume a role in AWS, create temporary credentials and run another command using the assumed roles: $Response = (Use-STSRole -Region eu-west-1 -RoleArn arn:aws:iam::<accountID>:role/<RoleName> -RoleSessionName RoleSession1).Credentials $Credentials = New-AWSCredentials -AccessKey $Response.AccessKeyId -SecretKey $Response.SecretAccessKey -SessionToken $Response.SessionToken Get-S3Bucket -BucketName yourbucketnamehere -Credential $Credentials
AWS Certified! Tips & tricks
Today I passed my first AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam