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How to Configure DNS with Route 53 and GoDaddy

If you are a website owner who bought a domain from GoDaddy (or some other registrar) and started exploring AWS to take advantage of the capabilities of cloud computing, one of the things you need to address will be: my application/website servers are hosted on AWS, so how can I integrate with the domain I bought from GoDaddy? The easiest answer is to update your GoDaddy NS records to point to Amazon’s name servers. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how this setup works. Note that we’ll be looking at GoDaddy so that we have a specific example, but this process will be very similar no matter where you bought your domain name. Our original guest post is available on cloudassessments.com blog . 

INVOKE Cloud recognized as a Rising Star for IT Management Software by FinancesOnline Directory

FinancesOnline, a popular review platform for software and B2B services, recently reviewed INVOKE Cloud in detail. Here are few tidbits from their review. With its fully automated infrastructure, INVOKE Cloud ditches traditional solutions such as “schedulers” that hamper productivity and efficiency. INVOKE Cloud lets users bring up their cloud servers whenever they are down by simply typing in the application URL from anywhere using any browser. The software also provides configuration options to filter users and groups who can bring up the servers and applications on-demand. Now, their readers have the possibility to familiarize themselves with a positive review on FinancesOnline , and discover a professional point of view on how our system can optimize cloud costs. To make matters even better, their team of experts distinguished INVOKE Cloud as one of the top performers in their top IT management software alternatives , and double-honored it with their Great User Ex...

Simple guide for AWS cloud formation - part 1

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WeDoIT  is Cloud solutions & consulting company founded by cloud experts. As part of give back (or) knowledge sharing with community, our team has started creating these tutorials/cloud topic summaries.   Check out cloud our computing spend optimization tool  INVOKE  to save cloud hosting costs by 50 to 80%. AWS CloudFormation is a service which helps you model and setup your AWS resources (in other words your AWS infrastructure). CloudFormation service comprises 2 steps: Template creation (or) modify existing template Stack creation (in other words run/Initiate template to create group of the resources) Template Creation Template is a file, in which you describe the resources you would like to create during the run/initiate template phase. Template file can be created in either JSON (or) YAML syntax. You can save these files with any extension, such as .json, .yaml, .template,or .txt. You can design CloudFormation template in AWS Clo...

AWS Stop Vs Terminate Vs Reboot

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WeDoIT  is Cloud solutions & consulting company founded by cloud experts. As part of give back (or) knowledge sharing with community, our team has started creating these tutorials/cloud topic summaries.   Check out cloud our computing cost optimizer tool INVOKE to save cloud hosting costs by 50 to 80%. From the moment you launch an instance until termination, EC2 instances transitions between different states as show in above picture. The transitions are very clear and easier to understand from above picture, we are not going to discuss about state transitions here. What we are going to discuss is, how billing will get affected when you move EC2 instances between these states. Reboot:   Reboot an instance is equal to rebooting an operating system, instance remains on same host computer and maintains its public DNS name, private IP address, and any data on its instance store volumes. Reboot an instance doesn’t start a new instance billing hour. ...