The Snipping Tool is one of my most used apps in Windows 10. When I changed to Windows 11, it still is the most used app that I have since I am into tech blogging.
That is why it is very important for me to have the Snipping Tool to be easily accessible as an icon in the Windows 11 Taskbar.
Follow the instructions below on how to pin the Snipping Tool icon to the Taskbar of Windows 11.
Continue reading How to pin Snipping Tool to the Taskbar in Windows 11When I switched to Windows 11, I noticed that the biggest adjustment that I had to make was the location and the icons in the Taskbar.
During my exploration, I noticed the existence of the Search Icon in the Taskbar. I also noticed in the Start Menu there is a section that says Type here to search, which has the same functionality as the Search Icon. That is why I removed the Search Icon and freed up some icon real estate on my Taskbar.
If you want to remove the Search Icon in your Windows 11 Taskbar, follow the instructions below.
Continue reading How to remove the Taskbar Search icon in Windows 11I have always been wary of EC2 Images and EBS Snapshots since they are cheap and are usually the last place where people would look to lower their AWS bill.
Continue reading What happens when you have too many EC2 Images / AMI?We were troubleshooting a network configuration on using AWS Direct Connect and as it turns out that the VLAN can be different coming from the Customer Gateway to the Customer POP Router and Customer POP Router to Public/Private Virtual Interface (VIF).
Continue reading Direct Connect and VLANsBelow is a Python Script that gets the price of AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ELB). This can retrieve prices for Classic, Application, Network and Gateway Load Balancers. It can also get the price of load balancers in AWS Outposts. See the different examples of how to use this Python code below.
import boto3
import json
from pkg_resources import resource_filename
def get_region_name(region_code):
endpoint_file = resource_filename('botocore', 'data/endpoints.json')
with open(endpoint_file, 'r') as f:
endpoint_data = json.load(f)
region_name = endpoint_data['partitions'][0]['regions'][region_code]['description']
region_name = region_name.replace('Europe', 'EU')
return region_name
def get_load_balancer_price(region_code, lb_product_family, is_outposts=False):
price_details = {}
region_name = get_region_name(region_code)
if is_outposts:
location_type = 'AWS Outposts'
else:
location_type = 'AWS Region'
filters = [
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'locationType', 'Value': location_type},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'location', 'Value': region_name},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'productFamily', 'Value': lb_product_family},
]
pricing_client = boto3.client('pricing', region_name='us-east-1')
response = pricing_client.get_products(ServiceCode='AWSELB', Filters=filters)
if len(response['PriceList']) == 0:
return None
for price in response['PriceList']:
price = json.loads(price)
usage_type = price['product']['attributes']['usagetype']
for on_demand in price['terms']['OnDemand'].values():
for price_dimensions in on_demand['priceDimensions'].values():
price_value = float(price_dimensions['pricePerUnit']['USD'])
if 'LoadBalancerUsage' in usage_type:
price_details['LoadBalancerUsage'] = price_value
elif 'DataProcessing-Bytes' in usage_type:
price_details['DataProcessing-Bytes'] = price_value
elif 'LCUUsage' in usage_type:
price_details['LCUUsage'] = price_value
return price_details
if __name__ == "__main__":
region_code = 'ap-south-1'
lb_product_family = 'Load Balancer' # Classic Load Balancer
price_details = get_load_balancer_price(region_code, lb_product_family)
print(region_code, lb_product_family)
print(price_details)Output
Continue reading How to get the price of AWS Load Balancers using Boto3 and PythonLet’s say there are 2 companies. Each company has an AWS Account of their.
Company A account owns the Direct Connect connection. They then created a Hosted Public Virtual Interface (VIF) to Company B account.
Company B account will then accept the Hosted Public VIF from Company A account.
Company B owns the public IP prefix and public ASN that will be used for the Hosted Public VIF.
After 72 hours, the Hosted Public VIF is still in “Verifying” state.
Which account should the Letter of Authorization (LOA) for Company B’s Public IP prefix and public ASN be submitted? Should it be Company A’s account or Company B’s account?
Continue reading Hosted Public VIFs and LOA for Public IP and ASNWe have a Direct Connect (DX) connection in Mumbai Region and we need to access an S3 bucket or an EC2 Instance with Elastic IP in N. Virginia region. For this we will need to use Public Virtual Interface (VIF).
When we setup the Public VIF and configured the router in the Corporate Data Center, we cannot route traffic to any resources in the N. Virginia Region.
Is it possible to route traffic from a region where my Direct Connect is to AWS resources in another region using Public Virtual Interface (VIF)?
Continue reading Public Virtual Interface (VIF) only advertising the AWS Prefixes on the same regionThe Python code below gets the on-demand price (in USD) of the EC2 instance type t2.micro in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region with Linux operating system.
Note: There are more examples below where we get the hourly price of different on-demand EC2 Instances like other operating system or EC2 Instances that are running on Dedicated Instances or Dedicated Hosts.
import boto3
import json
from pkg_resources import resource_filename
def get_region_name(region_code):
endpoint_file = resource_filename('botocore', 'data/endpoints.json')
with open(endpoint_file, 'r') as f:
endpoint_data = json.load(f)
region_name = endpoint_data['partitions'][0]['regions'][region_code]['description']
region_name = region_name.replace('Europe', 'EU')
return region_name
def get_ec2_instance_hourly_price(region_code,
instance_type,
operating_system,
preinstalled_software='NA',
tenancy='Shared',
is_byol=False):
region_name = get_region_name(region_code)
if is_byol:
license_model = 'Bring your own license'
else:
license_model = 'No License required'
if tenancy == 'Host':
capacity_status = 'AllocatedHost'
else:
capacity_status = 'Used'
filters = [
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'termType', 'Value': 'OnDemand'},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'capacitystatus', 'Value': capacity_status},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'location', 'Value': region_name},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'instanceType', 'Value': instance_type},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'tenancy', 'Value': tenancy},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'operatingSystem', 'Value': operating_system},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'preInstalledSw', 'Value': preinstalled_software},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'licenseModel', 'Value': license_model},
]
pricing_client = boto3.client('pricing', region_name='us-east-1')
response = pricing_client.get_products(ServiceCode='AmazonEC2', Filters=filters)
for price in response['PriceList']:
price = json.loads(price)
for on_demand in price['terms']['OnDemand'].values():
for price_dimensions in on_demand['priceDimensions'].values():
price_value = price_dimensions['pricePerUnit']['USD']
return float(price_value)
return None
if __name__ == "__main__":
region_code = 'ap-south-1'
instance_type = 't2.micro'
operating_system = 'Linux'
ec2_instance_price = get_ec2_instance_hourly_price(
region_code=region_code,
instance_type=instance_type,
operating_system=operating_system,
)
print(instance_type, operating_system, region_code)
print(ec2_instance_price)Output
Continue reading How to get the On-Demand price of EC2 Instances using Python and Boto3When we were setting up a Direct Connect I was wondering why the Direct Connect connection has state of ‘available’ but the router in the Corporate Data Center was off.
Continue reading AWS Direct Connect connection Status still ‘available’ when there is an issue with our On-Premise RouterThe code below gets the price of an EBS Snapshots given the AWS Region using Python and Boto3.
import boto3
import json
from pkg_resources import resource_filename
def get_region_name(region_code):
endpoint_file = resource_filename('botocore', 'data/endpoints.json')
with open(endpoint_file, 'r') as f:
endpoint_data = json.load(f)
region_name = endpoint_data['partitions'][0]['regions'][region_code]['description']
region_name = region_name.replace('Europe', 'EU')
return region_name
def get_ebs_snapshot_price(region_code):
region_name = get_region_name(region_code)
filters = [
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'productFamily', 'Value': "Storage Snapshot"},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'location', 'Value': region_name},
{'Type': 'TERM_MATCH', 'Field': 'storageMedia', 'Value': 'Amazon S3'}
]
pricing_client = boto3.client('pricing', region_name='ap-south-1')
response = pricing_client.get_products(ServiceCode='AmazonEC2', Filters=filters)
if len(response['PriceList']) > 0:
price = json.loads(response['PriceList'][0])
for on_demand in price['terms']['OnDemand'].values():
for price_dimensions in on_demand['priceDimensions'].values():
price_value = price_dimensions['pricePerUnit']['USD']
return float(price_value)
return None
if __name__ == "__main__":
region_code = 'ap-southeast-1'
snapshot_price = get_ebs_snapshot_price(region_code)
print(snapshot_price, '\t', region_code)
region_code = 'sa-east-1'
snapshot_price = get_ebs_snapshot_price(region_code)
print(snapshot_price, '\t', region_code)
region_code = 'eu-west-1'
snapshot_price = get_ebs_snapshot_price(region_code)
print(snapshot_price, '\t', region_code)Output
Continue reading How to get the price of EBS Snapshots using Boto3 and Python