Abhijit Ghosh - AwsJunkie

Effortless Automation: Rapidly Generate AWS CloudFormation Templates and CDK Apps for Your Existing Resources in Minutes!

CloudFormation IaC generator can generate AWS CloudFormation template and AWS CDK apps for your existing AWS resources in minutes without writing any code. It saves several weeks of manual effort

Abhijit Ghosh

7 Feb 2024 · 1 min read

Idempotency Support for Route Table and Network ACL Creation in Amazon VPC!

Amazon VPN now supports idempotency for route table and network ACL creation. You can incorporate a retry mechanism in your creation workflow without creating duplicate resources. When creating route tables

Abhijit Ghosh

5 Feb 2024 · 1 min read

Explore the Power of Account-Level Subscription Filters in Amazon CloudWatch Logs!

CloudWatch logs from all or multiple log groups can now be delivered to the desired destination (Amazon Kinesis Data Stream, Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or AWS Lambda) using just one

Abhijit Ghosh

1 Feb 2024 · 1 min read

[new capability] Amazon EC2 supports disabling Amazon Machine Image (or AMI)

Housekeeping is always an important activity. Otherwise, soon, it will become an operational and management overhead. Fortunately, Amazon EC2 now supports disabling an Amazon Machine Image (or AMI). Let’s

Abhijit Ghosh

23 Oct 2023 · 2 min read

How to Run Bash Scripts on AWS Lambda?

If you want to run bash scripts on AWS Lambda, create a Lambda function with a custom runtime. Here are the steps to follow: Create a Lambda function with the

Abhijit Ghosh

25 Sep 2023 · 4 min read

Multivalue answer (MVA) support for DNS queries of Amazon S3 endpoints

With multivalue answer (MVA) support for DNS queries of Amazon S3 endpoints, you can achieve enhanced reliability and higher aggregate throughput for your connections to S3. It is available at

Abhijit Ghosh

19 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Automatically set up connectivity between Amazon RDS or Aurora database and AWS Lambda in minutes

The Amazon RDS console now offers the feature of automatically setting up connectivity between Amazon RDS or Aurora database and AWS Lambda in minutes. This feature helps to eliminate manual

Abhijit Ghosh

25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

How to Access Amazon S3 Bucket like a Local File System

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now generally available and ready for production workloads. This open-source simple file client is optimized for read-heavy workloads that require high throughput and focused on

Abhijit Ghosh

21 Aug 2023 · 3 min read

Easy housekeeping with the new capability of Amazon EventBridge Scheduler

To create, trigger, and manage scheduled events and tasks, we use Amazon EventBridge Scheduler (serverless offering). Over time, we accumulate a large number of unused finished schedules, which count towards

Abhijit Ghosh

18 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

Use "Public IP Insights" [new feature] to optimize usage of chargeable public IPv4 address

Public IPv4 addresses will no longer be free. Effective February 1, 2024, Amazon will charge you 0.005$ per public IPv4 address per hour. You will likely soon use "Public

Abhijit Ghosh

16 Aug 2023 · 2 min read

Better, Faster and Cheaper with AWS Lambda's new Python 3.11 runtime

If you are still running your AWS Lambda workloads on Python 3.10 or earlier versions, migrate to Python 3.11 for better performance and lower cost. AWS Lambda has

Abhijit Ghosh

31 Jul 2023 · 1 min read

Detect recursive loop and stop run-away AWS Lambda function

A run-away AWS Lambda function may hog all available concurrency of your account and cause unexpected charges in the AWS bill. But Lambda can now detect and stop certain types

Abhijit Ghosh

21 Jul 2023 · 3 min read

How to use GitHub Action with AWS CodeBuild ?

With the release of GitHub Action support, AWS CodeBuild has expanded its scope of possibilities. You can leverage pre-built actions or third-party solutions available in GitHub’s marketplace. There is

Abhijit Ghosh

18 Jul 2023 · 22 min read

Test and Debug AWS CodeBuild Builds Locally using AWS CodeBuild agent

If you are still using AWS CodeBuild managed service for testing and debugging, then you have the scope to save cost and expedite the build-test-debug cycle loop using AWS CodeBuild

Abhijit Ghosh

17 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

AWS CodeBuild - GitHub Actions: COMMAND_EXECUTION_ERROR Message: Error while executing command | [error]Docker pull failed with exit code 1

For GitHub Docker container actions, "build project must have privileged mode enabled and be run by the default Docker user (root)." Otherwise, build will fail with following error logs. [Container]

Abhijit Ghosh

10 Jul 2023 · 2 min read

How to Install and Configure Amazon DynamoDB local version 2.0 (downloadable)?

Amazon DynamoDB local not only speeds up development and testing iteration loop, it also saves cost of using DynamoDB webservices. Free downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB (DynamoDBLocal.jar) can run

Abhijit Ghosh

7 Jul 2023 · 8 min read

How to uninstall AWS CLI version 2?

If you already have AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI 2) and want to uninstall it from your system, then you will find all the steps to remove it. Find

Abhijit Ghosh

4 Jul 2023 · 1 min read

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 supports sequential write operations for creating new files

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 (an open source simple file client for mounting S3 bucket as a local file system) was launched on AWS Pi Day 2023 with no support for

Abhijit Ghosh

4 Jul 2023 · 1 min read