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AWS Container Hero - Vlad Ionescu

Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:22:03 +0000

It is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania.

AWS Loft Bucharest 2019

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 10:28:42 +0000

November brings the AWS Loft Bucharest event to Romania! The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, attend educational..

Start Your A.I. Journey With AWS @ PentaBAR #53

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 17:17:25 +0000

After my first PentaBAR meetup in September, I’m co-presenting again with Catalin Dumitras from Pentalog, this time in Brasov!

AWS Loft Kiev 2019

Fri, 18 Oct 2019 06:14:32 +0000

In October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.

Cloud Infrastructure for NGOs - TechSoup Webinar

Sat, 05 Oct 2019 17:22:16 +0000

On October 10, I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of TechSoup Romania. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010…

AWSome Day Bucharest 2019

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 10:05:18 +0000

On the 12th of March, AWS together with our local partner Bittnet is organizing the 4th edition of the AWSome Day event in Bucharest..

New year, new challenges

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:16:22 +0000

Over the summer I’ve been working on updating the Exchange Server on AWS quickstart. Quick Starts are built by AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants..

The updated Exchange Server on AWS QuickStart published!

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:25:00 +0000

Over the summer I’ve been working on updating the Exchange Server on AWS quickstart. Quick Starts are built by AWS Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants..

Presenting at the upcoming AWS Pop-Up Loft Stockholm

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:32:16 +0000

AWS is hosting a Pop-up Loft in Stockholm between in October-November, places where developers and IT professionals can attend educational sessions, work on..

Transylvania Cloud Meetup session

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:32:16 +0000

In December I’m heading to my home country Romania to help with a hackathon that and talk about Infrastructure as Code and ..

How to Deploy Local Administrator Password Solution with AWS Microsoft AD

Thu, 08 Jun 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) from Microsoft simplifies password management by allowing organizations to use Active Directory (AD) to store unique passwords for computers

How to copy AMI permissions

Sun, 12 Mar 2017 09:45:19 +0000

Copying AMIs across regions is easy, but how do you copy permissions as well?

Programmatically list AWS services

Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:36:05 +0000

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

Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:43:11 +0000

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 Certified! Tips & tricks

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:11:26 +0000

Today I passed my first AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam

AWS getVPCnameById

Wed, 17 Feb 2016 22:04:55 +0000

I was recently looking at retrieving a VPC’s Name based on its id. Here is the Python/Boto3 implementation

from boto3.session import Session
session = Session(aws_access_key_id='aaaa',aws_secret_access_key='XXX',region_name='eu-west-1')
ec2 = session.resource('ec2')

vpc = ec2.Vpc('vpc-6661b904')
vpc.tags[0]['Value']

The one liner version for AWS cli is

aws ec2 describe-vpcs --vpc-ids vpc-6188b904 --query "Vpcs[0].Tags[?Key=='Name'].Value[]" --output text

SQLSaturday 915 - Bucharest 2019

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I had a presentation on Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services at SQLSaturday 915 Bucharest.