If you need to rename your EC2 instances based on the tags set, you can use the below code snippets. This can be particularly useful if you use a hardened AMI with a name already set in. To apply them, you can just use a cron job or a Task Scheduler job, or even cloudwatch […]
Month: July 2020
Windows Server 2016 Update issues with WSUS
In case if you configured a new WSUS server, but your Windows Server 2016 servers without internet access are throwing errors like “We couldn’t connect to the update service. We’ll try again later, or you can check now. If it still doesn’t work, make sure you’re connected to the Internet.“, you can fix it by […]
Create AWS Systems Manager Maintenance Window without a target
AWS SSM is a great tool, with a lot of cool features, but I always felt that the documentation is not very good, or the console is very intuitive. Recently I wanted to configure a maintenance window with an SSM Automation task, but the task did not take any instances as the inputs. The task […]