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- Provide customer access to files on EFS volumes, without requiring shell access. Access to AWS EFS Volumes
Standard Solutions
Elastic Beanstalk
Detailed control of Elastic Beanstalk environment configuration via .ebextensions
- Lots of various configuration suggestions.
- https://github.com/awslabs/elastic-beanstalk-docs/tree/master/.ebextensions/aws_provided
Set an environment variable with AWS region for instances in Elastic Beanstalk
- There are lots of ways to do this, but this is automagical if you are using Elastic Beanstalk
- https://github.com/awslabs/elastic-beanstalk-docs/blob/master/.ebextensions/aws_provided/instance%20configuration/env-regionname.config
Use an EFS volume for instances in Elastic Beanstalk
- http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/services-efs.html
- Create EFS - https://github.com/awslabs/elastic-beanstalk-docs/blob/master/.ebextensions/aws_provided/instance%20configuration/storage-efs-createfilesystem.config
- Mount EFS - https://github.com/awslabs/elastic-beanstalk-docs/blob/master/.ebextensions/aws_provided/instance%20configuration/storage-efs-mountfilesystem.config
Setup Papertrail on Elastic Beanstalk instances
- http://help.papertrailapp.com/kb/hosting-services/aws-elastic-beanstalk/
- https://github.com/papertrail/remote_syslog2/blob/master/examples/remote_syslog.ebextensions.config
- See also Logging Tool : Papertrail
EC2
Expanded Notifications for EC2 Instance Retirement
Joining EC2 Instances to Cornell AD
Elastic Block Store
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- Use snapshotting instead of a traditional file backup process.
- Configure a Jenkins job to run the auto-snapshot utility.
- https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils#auto-snapshot
Prune EBS snapshots
- Prune snapshots that are older than a specified age. Useful in conjunction with "Snapshot (backup) EBS volumes attached to running EC2 instances".
- https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils#clean-snapshots
- https://github.com/CU-CloudCollab/cucloud_utils/blob/master/bin/delete-ebs-snapshots-older-than.rb
Route53
Tie a cornell.edu hostname to an AWS service
- See How to Setup AWS Route53 to Work with Cornell-Managed DNS blog post.
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Using IAM policy to restrict EC2 actions to specific users or role
Expanded Notifications for EC2 Instance Retirement
Joining EC2 Instances to Cornell AD