Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behaviour to protect your AWS accounts and workloads. You can enable it to enhance the security on your AWS account.
First log into your AWS account, then click services and search for GuardDuty.
In the next screen click Get Stated
Next Click enable GuardDuty
A video with more information can be found here:
This tutorial will show you how to install the Apache web server on CentOS 8.
You will need to log into your CentOS 8 server and run the following commands:
A full video can be seen here:
This blog post will show you how to set up Red hat on AWS.
A full video of the process can be seen below.
This short video will show you how to correct the error:
This error is actually cased by not having firewalld installed on your system.
In this video you will see how to install firewalld
To fix this issue you need to run the following commands:
sudo yum install firewalld sudo
systemctl start firewalld sudo systemctl
enable firewalld sudo systemctl status firewalld
Once these commands are run you can then start using firewall-cmd command.
A full blog post with all the steps listed out can be found here. Macs are built on Unix and as such, you can use the terminal to run commands. However, by default root is disabled. This video will show you how to enable root on mac so you can run commands as sudo.
A full video can be found here:
By default, Macs have safari installed as their Web browser. You may want to change this to use something else.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to download and install Firefox on Mac.
Step 1
First, open safari and navigate to:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Then click Download now.
Step 2
Once the download is complete click the downloads symbol in the upper right and then double click Firefox.dmg file.
Step 3
You will then see the dmg file opening.
Step 4
Click and drag the Firefox icon to the apps folder.
Step 5
You will then see firefox installing.
Once this had completed you will then see firefox available in your launcher.
A full video tutorial can be found here:
This tutorial will show you how to install Windows server 2019. In this tutorial we use Virtual box but if you are installing it on to a physical machine the process will be much the same.
Step 1
Download Windows Server 2019 from here:
Step 2
If using virtual box:
Step 3
In the following screen click next.
Step 4
Right click your machine and click settings.
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When your machine boots select your language and click next.
Step 8
Click install now.
Step 9
In the next screen select – Windows Server 2019 Standard Evaluation (Desktop Experience) or a different version if you wish to use this one. Then click next.
Step 10
Read and accept the licence and then click next.
Step 11
Click custom: install windows only
Step 12
Click unallocated space and then click next.
Step 13
Server 2019 will now begin to install
Step 14
When the install is complete you will be asked to enter a password for the administrator account – do so and then click finish.
Step 15
You will then be greeted by the login screen and you have successfully installed server 2019.
A full video tutorial can be found here:
Amazon AWS S3 is a file storage service on Amazon Web Services. You can also host static websites on S3 quite cheaply and easily. This guide will show you how to host a static website on Amazon s3.
Step 1
You will need to create two files on your local machine – you can download them below:
Step 2
Log into you AWS console go to S3 and click create new bucket.
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Give your bucket an unique name and click create.
Step 4
Click the checkbox beside your bucket and then click “Edit Public Access Settings”
Step 5
Leave the defaults as is and click save
Step 6
Type confirm and then click confirm
Step 7
Click into your bucket and click upload. Upload the index.html and error.html to your bucket.
Step 8
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Click Properties.
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Then click static Website Hosting
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Click:
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Click back on static website hosting
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Now click your website endpoint – you will be brought to your website.
A full video tutorial can be found here:
Userdata on AWS allows you to run commands on start-up when you launch an EC2 instance on AWS. This is known as boot strapping your instance. In this example we will be boot strapping Amazon Linux with the Apache web server.
Step 1
First log into you AWS portal and then click services and EC2
Step 2
Next Click launch instance.
Step 3
Select Amazon Linux
Step 4
Leave the instance as mirco to get the free tier and click next Configure instance details
Step 5
Leave the defaults and scroll down to advanced details and expand it – enter the following lines into the textbox:
#!/bin/bash
yum install httpd -y
systemctl start httpd
systemctl stop firewalld
cd /var/www/html
echo "this is my test site" > index.html
The text in the code block above installs apache and adds an simple webpage that reads this is my test site. Finally click Next add storage
Step 6
Leave the defaults and click next add tags
Step 7
Give your machine a name and click Next Configure Security Group.
Step 8
Allow port 80 from 0.0.0.0/0 on the security group and click review and launch
Step 9
Click Launch
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You can proceed without a keypair as we will not log into this instance
Step 11
click your instance ID
Step 12
Wait until your instance is running and then copy it’s pubic IP or dns name
Step 13
Open a new browser and enter the pubic IP of your Linux instance into the address bar. You should now see the simple webpage we created.
A full video tutorial can be found here:
You can create an Amazon Machine Image or AMI for your existing EC2 instance. The AMI will allow you to launch a fresh EC2 instance using the AMI as a template. You can also share the AMI with other AWS accounts.
Step 1
To get started, it is best practise to stop your instance before you start. So right click your instance and click stop
Step 2
When the instance has stopped, right click it again, click image and then create Image
Step 3
Give your Image a name, a description and then click create Image
Step 4
In the screen that appears click the ami ID.
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You will now see your image creation as pending.
Step 6
Once the ami is marked as available you can then launch it as an EC2 instance.
A full video tutorial can be found here: