AWS Quick Tips

By J. Toman / on 16 Sep, 2019

AWS Quick Tips: Encrypt Existing RDS Database

How To Encrypt an Existing RDS Database

Sometimes you need to apply security to an RDS database by encrypting it after it’s created. How do you do that? The short answer is: you can’t. Encryption has to be set up at the time of database creation. That’s not the whole story though. The Golden Rule of Cloud Computing is

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By J. Toman / on 16 Sep, 2019

AWS Quick Tips: Lost Key Pair

I lost my key pair to my EC2 instance. How can I retrieve them?

You can’t. Once they’re gone, they’re gone. If you could retrieve them then theoretically some bad guy could retrieve them too. However, the Golden Rule of Cloud Computing is

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By J. Toman / on 16 Sep, 2019

AWS Quick Tips: Workmail Migration

I need to migrate my email, contact lists, calendar to Workmail. How do I do that?

As far as managed email goes, Workmail is pretty reasonable in cost and has all the features one might expect for business email. The only thing that’s missing as far as we are concerned is an integrated PGP/GPG solution in their web client. However, when set up correctly Workmail does encrypt your email using AWS KMS on its servers.

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