Author Archives: Anthony Heddings

AWS makes finding the size of an S3 bucket fairly unintuitive and hidden in the menus. Here’s how to find the total size, graph it in CloudWatch, or fetch it programmatically from the command line.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT › Continue reading →

If you really want to lock down your cloud server, you can enable two-factor authentication for SSH in the same way you would add it to your Gmail account, preventing anyone from gaining access if they’ve stolen your SSH private key.Read This Art… Continue reading →

DDoS attacks, or Distributed Denial of Service, can threaten to take your website offline, preventing it from doing its job. There are many ways you can minimize the risk from this, and make your website more scalable in the process.Read This Article o… Continue reading →

XML is complicated, and parsing it natively is fairly hard, even with scripting languages. Luckily, there’s a utility that can convert XML to JSON, which is easier to work with, both in scripts and on the command line.Read This Article on CloudSa… Continue reading →

Containers package up all of your app’s code, dependencies, and configuration into a single image that you can run on Amazon’s Elastic Container Service without configuring or managing a single EC2 instance.Read This Article on CloudSavvy I… Continue reading →

Your DNS is the service that translates your domain name into an IP address. AWS Route 53 is a smart DNS system that can dynamically change your origin address based on load, and even perform load balancing before traffic even reaches your servers.Read… Continue reading →

If you’re using a Gmail account for your business, that account is the key to your entire life. You may think two-factor authentication (2FA) is enough to keep criminals at bay, but SMS based 2FA can be easily bypassed.Read This Article on CloudS… Continue reading →

It’s easy to launch new instances from the EC2 Console, but sometimes you need to automate the task from a shell script. In that case, the AWS CLI has extensive commands for launching instances from the command line.Read This Article on CloudSavv… Continue reading →

Game servers are very resource-hungry; if you’re planning on seriously hosting one, you’ll want to find a server with the fastest CPU possible, so your game can run smoothly and handle the load of many people connected at the same time.Read… Continue reading →

If you don’t need any server-side HTML processing, you might not even need a “real” web server like NGINX—static websites can be hosted and served from GCP Cloud Storage buckets, a high performance and scalable alternative to tr… Continue reading →