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AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

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Late yesterday I decided to create an AWS Microsoft AD Directory Service.  The task itself is pretty straightforward and I had no problems with the deployment process.  A task that should be equally straightforward is setting up a trust relationship with an existing AD domain.  A task that should take about 5 minutes ended up … Continue reading AWS – Access Denied when Adding AD Trust Relationship

Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway

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As I'm sure many of you are, I've been working on ways to effectively harness the power of the cloud.  One idea I decided to pursue was integrating an AWS Tape Gateway with an on-prem Veeam infrastructure in order to move my archived backup data from my local datacenter to AWS S3 storage. Now, I'll … Continue reading Part 1 – Veeam and AWS Tape Gateway Integration – Deploying the Tape Gateway

AWS – Error Importing Certificate Private Key

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In order to use AWS application load balancers for HTTPS traffic, you'll need to import your certificate into AWS using the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). My certificate was originally installed onto a Windows IIS server and was exported as a PFX file.  Naturally this is not the right format for importing into ACM so this … Continue reading AWS – Error Importing Certificate Private Key

“Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU

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For some time, I have been running an AWS EC2 G2.2xlarge instance to keep from buying a laptop to run Photoshop.  With the introduction of Elastic GPUs, I was interested in "converting" that VM to a T2.large instance with an eg1.large Elastic GPU that I believe should save me about $.40 per hour of operation. … Continue reading “Converting” an Existing EC2 Instance to an Elastic GPU