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Claude Code Personae: Manage Your AI Coding Assistant Configurations with Ease
Managing Claude Code configurations across multiple providers—AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, local models—used to mean manual JSON editing. Our new VS Code extension, Claude Code Personae, brings a clean GUI and composable presets to make switching effortless.
Read more →cloudX: Keep Your Code in AWS, Not on Your Laptop
When code and data never leave your AWS environment, compliance becomes dramatically simpler. cloudX gives developers a full VSCode experience backed by an EC2 instance—your work stays in AWS, your laptop is just a display.
Read more →IAM Permission Boundaries
A while ago AWS introduced Permission Boundaries. You may have seen them when creating an IAM user or role through the console, and ignored them. That's OK, since permission boundaries have no effect if they're not configured. You may also have read about them and learned that your effective IAM permissions are the intersection between…
Read more →i am here
As an AWS consultant/trainer I travel a lot for my work. When at customers locations, I occasionally want to log in into our sandbox environment. In previous postings, I have shown how we increase security by switching on and off the bastion host with a single (or double) key-press of the AWS IoT button. In…
Read more →SSH config for AWS bastion
As a roaming AWS trainer, I work on my AWS infrastructure from many different locations to give demos to the course attendees and prepare stuff in EC2 instances when necessary. When I launch instances, I usually do so in private subnets, not opening the instances to the Internet when not absolutely necessary. To access the instances I…
Read more →Increase security with the click of a button!
Although at easytocloud we prefer to build serverless solutions wherever we can, we do have some EC2 instances and use a bastion host to access our - predominantly private - EC2 instances. In an earlier posting you could read how we use our EC2 scheduler to stop and start our persistent instances based on the time of the…
Read more →Alexa, Lambda & One Time Passwords – A match made in heaven
By now, you must have heard of the amazing Amazon Echo devices; smart speaker/microphone devices backed up by the Alexa voice service. Now, the cool thing is you can build your own skills quite easily. Register as a developer and start building your custom skill so your Echo reacts to things like "what's up for dinner?" or maybe…
Read more →Visualize EC2 Performance and Pricing
As a Unix expert, I used to think everything is a file. Now I know better: everything is an API (or should be). AWS took this to the max by even disclosing their prices and specifications through an API. That allows us to write code that presents the EC2 specs and prices in a whole new…
Read more →A serverless EC2 scheduler using Lambda and Cloudwatch Events
In an attempt to further reduce costs of our EC2 instances, we determined some instances that are running 24/7 unnecessarily. An automated process to schedule  stop and start instances would greatly help cutting costs. Of course, the solution itself should not add an extra instance to our infrastructure. The solution has to be an example…
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