Three things Michael and I love to do most: prototyping innovative products, playing around with the latest technology and learning new things. That is why we decided to take part in the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competition. We’d like to introduce marbot, our chatbot, to you and share the backstory of its creation. Challenge The AWS […]
Archives for September 2016
Connecting Kinesis Analytics with AWS IoT
In a previous post, Getting started with AWS IoT and Tessel, you learned how to send temperature data from your Tessel microcontroller to an AWS IoT topic. You also learned how to set up an alarm that fires whenever the temperature goes above a certain point (in the example, 10 degree Celsius). But fixed thresholds […]
New CloudFormation Templates – VPC bastion host, Jenkins, Security AWS Config
We released four new CloudFormation templates and updated the other templates to work together with the new SSH bastion host. Using our Infrastructure as Code templates will help you to bootstrap common setups on Amazon Web Services (AWS) within minutes. Our templates are exclusively designed for AWS CloudFormation, the Infrastructure as Code services on AWS. […]
Enable SSH Service on ESXi hosts using PowerShell
I found myself wanting to enable the SSH service on my ESXi hosts. I could use Host Profiles to enable it but I decided to PowerShell script it! To enable SSH there are three parts to it: You will need to start the SSH service and set it to Start and Stop with Host: And you […]