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How to create Cloudwatch alarms for an SQS Queue on AWS

CloudWatch metrics for SQS queues are collected and pushed to CloudWatch at one-minute intervals automatically. These metrics are provided at no charge in CloudWatch for both standard and FIFO queues. In this article, we will create an alarm for the &q…

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How to create an SQS queue on AWS using Terraform

In this article, we will create an SQS queue using Terraform on AWS. We will also add a policy that will allow all to send messages to the queue.

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How to copy items from one DynamoDB to another DynamoDB table using Python on AWS

This tutorial shows you how to write a Python script to copy data from one DynamoDB to another DynamoDB table on AWS.

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How to protect documents with a digital signature in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors v.6.2

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use a digital signature in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to protect your documents. ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite that contains viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and …

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How to Register a Domain Name on AWS

When you want to build a website or web applications, the first step is to buy a domain name, as it is an easier way to remember than the IP of the server. A domain name is a unique name that identifies the website, hence no 2 websites can have the sam…

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How to create a DynamoDB table on AWS using Terraform

In this article, we will see the steps to create a DynamoDB Table using Terraform. We will create a DynamoDB Table with the "PAY_PER_REQUEST" billing model. Before we proceed with this article, it is assumed that you are aware of AWS DynamoDB…

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How to store AWS user access key and secret key in Jenkins

In this article, we will install the "CloudBees AWS Credentials" plugin and store the AWS IAM user’s secret key and access key in Jenkins using this plugin. We will install the "AWS Steps Plugin" so that we could use "awsStep&q…

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How to update the ONLYOFFICE Docs Docker version on Ubuntu

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite distributed under GNU AGPL v3.0. It comprises web-based collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations highly compatible with OOXML formats (docx, xlsx, pptx).

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How to increase the disk space of an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance

In this article, we will increase the disk space of the boot volume (root partition) with the filesystem of type ext4 of Ubuntu 20.04 Server.

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How to configure Route53 with our DomainName to access a static website from S3 on AWS

This article will help you with the steps to host a static website on S3 and redirect traffic from your subdomain to the static website on the S3 bucket.

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How to create and modify a Parameter Group for an RDS instance on AWS

A Parameter Group contains configuration to be used by the DB instances on AWS. In this article, we will see the steps to create a new Parameter group, change the default value of one of the parameters and assign it to the MySql DB instances.

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How to create an SFTP-enabled Server on AWS

AWS Transfer Family supports Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files to and from AWS S3 or AWS EFS(Elastic File System). In this article, we will see the steps to …

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How to create a subscription between an SQS queue and SNS topic on AWS

The idea behind subscribing to SQS in SNS is to send messages from SNS to SQS. One can send both raw messages and any other message attributes included in the SNS message.

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How to setup a Kubernetes Cluster on AWS using Kops

Kops is used to bringing up the Kubernetes cluster in the easiest possible way. It is a command-line tool used to create Kubernetes Clusters. In this article, we will see the steps to create a Kubernetes cluster with 1 master and 1 worker node on AWS.

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How to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Manjaro Linux

ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite pack that comprises offline editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install the latest version (v.6.1) of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors…

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The 7 Best Linux Apps To Download

IntroductionLinux continues to be an underappreciated OS. Despite its large presence in the tech industry and among tech enthusiasts, many ignore Linux in favor of more popular OS’s, such as Windows and MacOS.There’s a reason for Linux’s small(er) fanb…

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How to deploy Applications on Kubernetes using Helm

In this article, we will release Apache from the existing chart. We will create a sample chart and release, upgrade, rollback, delete and restore it. Let’s see the commands in brief before we use them in the article later.

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How to create Cloudwatch alarms for an SNS Topic on AWS

We can use Cloudwatch to view and analyze metrics for SNS Topics we have in our account. In this article, we will see steps to create an alarm for the "NumberOfNotificationsDelivered" metric for the existing SNS Topic.

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How to create Cloudwatch alarms for RDS (MySQL) on AWS

Monitoring your RDS instances is very important, and the same applies to other resources. In this article, we will create a simple alarm for an RDS MySQL instance which will check for free storage space on the instance.

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Advanced Git Tutorial

In this article, we will cover creating a branch, tag, renaming the branch, and revert the commits on Git. If you are new to Git, I would recommend you to first go through my previous article and then continue with this.

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