Tag Archives: AWS

AWS DevOps Engineer- Professional: Got it!

Posted on 11/06/2017 by Pascal Alma

When you have a look at the archives of my blog you might notice that I haven’t written any blogs for the last few months. The reason was simple: lack of time. I had decided to not only renew my … Continue reading →

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Using NAT Gateway instead of NAT Instance with AWS VPC

Posted on 02/01/2017 by Pascal Alma

I recently bumped into my own post of some time ago in which I describe how to add a NAT instance to your private subnet to have access to the internet to install packages etc. Although this still works some … Continue reading →

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Configure AWS Elastic Beanstalk application to use SSL

Posted on 08/09/2016 by Pascal Alma

In this post I show you how to set up HTTPS for an application (REST API) running on AWS Elastic Beanstalk. This post is the last in a serie of three. As described in my previous two post I have … Continue reading →

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Get a Certificate from AWS Certificate Manager

Posted on 01/09/2016 by Pascal Alma

Recently AWS made the ‘Certificate Manager‘ service available in the Europe region. With this service you will be able to use SSL certificate (for free) with your applications hosted on AWS. The big advantage compared to the solution I described … Continue reading →

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Assigning a subdomain to a Beanstalk application with AWS Route 53

Posted on 18/08/2016 by Pascal Alma

In a previous post I wrote about how to run a Spring Boot application on AWS by using Elastic Beanstalk. I also described earlier how to make your Spring Boot application making use of HTTPS instead of HTTP in combination … Continue reading →

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Configuring the Elastic Load Balancer of your Elastic Beanstalk application

Posted on 04/08/2016 by Pascal Alma

In my previous post I showed how to run a Spring Boot application on AWS using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In that post I mention that it is possible to bypass the default Nginx instance on the EC2 instance and have … Continue reading →

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Make running your Spring Boot application in the cloud super easy with Boxfuse

Posted on 25/04/2016 by Pascal Alma

A few days ago I started building an iOS app that would be using a REST API to retrieve and store data. This REST API would be a server application that I also have to build. Since I am familiair … Continue reading →

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Adding a NAT to your AWS VPC

Posted on 07/07/2015 by Pascal Alma

In a previous post I described how to setup a VPC with both private and public subnets with AWS. In the post I showed a basic configuration in which we saw that the instances in the private subnet didn’t have … Continue reading →

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Setting up your own VPC with AWS

Posted on 21/06/2015 by Pascal Alma

When you are using AWS resources like EC2 instances they will be assigned to a default VPC. However, by using AWS it is quite easy to setup your own VPC. In this post I describe how to setup a basic … Continue reading →

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I am now an AWS Certified Developer

Posted on 12/06/2015 by Pascal Alma

Lately I have created several posts about different areas of what AWS offers. The reason behind these posts is that I was preparing myself for the exam ‘AWS Certified Developer-Associate’. Although I have been working with AWS for several years … Continue reading →

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