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tuxninja
September 23, 2017
AWS, Cloud, How To's, Programming, Python, Systems Administration
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How To: Create An AWS Lambda Function To Backup/Snapshot Your EBS Volumes

AWS Lambda functions are a great way to run some code on a trigger/schedule without needing a whole server dedicated to it. They can be cost effective, but be careful depending on how long they run, and the number of executions per hour, they can be quite costly as well. For my use case, I […]

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tuxninja
May 28, 2017
AWS, Cloud, Databases, NoSQL
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MongoDB data loss avoided courtesy of AWS EBS & Snapshots

Cross Region MongoDB Across A Slow Network (Napster) Bad, AWS Snapshots (Metallica) Good! I recently found myself in a bit of a pickle. My team and I had deployed a 3 node MongoDB cluster configured as two nodes in us-east-1 and one node in us-west-2 to maximize our availability while minimizing cost. Ultimately, there were two problems […]

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