In November 2020, Google announced that it would no longer offer unlimited free storage for “high quality” photos on Google Photos starting June 1, 2021. Following the deadline, Google only offered users 15GB of free storage shared across Gmail, Drive, and Google Photos and required users to subscribe to a Google One plan for additional … Read more
Amazon Lightsail, launched in 2016, is essentially a virtual private server (VPS) that offers you everything needed to deploy an application or website in a cost-effective and easy-to-understand manner. It is a basic service, but extremely convenient. It is designed for customers, developers, small businesses, or startups to get quickly started in AWS. It reduces … Read more
I’m fairly new to Python and I’m trying to write a boto3 script that would find certain tags with certain criteria like “missing, incorrect, unknown, etc..” and then email to the appropriate contact tag for the EC2 instance. Now, it works but other than collecting the tags that are wrong I may have gone down … Read more
Amazon’s Fire tablets are possibly the most affordable tablets you can buy in 2022. They bring a lot of value to the table and are perfect for those who simply want a reliable slate for consuming media and accessing the web. The Fire tablets run on Amazon’s Fire OS and rely on the company’s app … Read more
s3.tf resource “aws_iam_role” “iam_role_replication” { name = “tf-iam-role-replication-12345” assume_role_policy = <<POLICY { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Action”: “sts:AssumeRole”, “Principal”: { “Service”: “s3.amazonaws.com” }, “Effect”: “Allow”, “Sid”: “” } ] } POLICY } resource “aws_iam_policy” “iam_policy_replication” { name = “tf-iam-role-policy-replication-12345” policy = <<POLICY { “Version”: “2012-10-17”, “Statement”: [ { “Action”: [ “s3:GetReplicationConfiguration”, “s3:ListBucket” ], “Effect”: … Read more
I have a data pipeline where AWS API Gateway triggers lambda, which inserts events into Kinesis stream and writes them to S3 for Athena to query. I defined my stack using “serverless framework”, as below: service: analytic-event-collection provider: name: aws stage: ${opt:stage, ‘staging’} region: ${opt:region, ‘us-east-1’} runtime: nodejs12.x httpApi: cors: true iam: role: statements: – … Read more
I’ve been testing the Amazon Fire 7 tablet recently and one thing I’ve always suspected is that the Amazon Appstore is not…to put it politely…good. Yes, that is putting it politely. I had a bit of anecdotal evidence to support that, but nothing concrete. So I decided to look where the rubber meets the road … Read more
The Kindle Paperwhite is arguably the best e-reader in the Kindle lineup, striking the perfect balance between price and performance. Last year, Amazon introduced the Paperwhite 11th Gen, which brings a host of much-needed upgrades, including an updated design, a bigger and brighter display, Warm Light, and USB-C charging. If you’re using a previous generation … Read more
The Kindle ebook readers are the best devices for reading. Their glare-free E Ink displays are easier on the eyes and read like paper, and since they’re disconnected from the world of social media, they provide a distraction-free, focused reading experience. If you’re a serious reader, a Kindle is a no-brainer and a bunch of … Read more
After buying one of the best Kindle e-readers, it’s only natural that you would want to load it up with your favorite books. If prior to getting the Kindle, you have mostly been doing your reading on a PC or smartphone, you undoubtedly have a vast collection of PDFs and other documents. The good news … Read more