I had 4GB RAM which was the default when I bought the mac. After upgrading to Mac OS Lion I really needed more memory, Especially when I am working with Xcode. Local cost was around AED 580 (160 USD) for 2X4GB. Next option was to check online and Amazon came to rescue. Cost for 2X4GB… Continue reading Upgrading RAM for my 27 inch iMac mid 2011
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Imthiaz’s Blog powered by Amazon CloudFront
I have been experimenting with Amazon Web Services for sometime. I was successful in offloading media traffic with the help of Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudFront plugin for WordPress. But it was never enough. Please don’t think my blog traffic is very high, but this is the only website I have with which I could… Continue reading Imthiaz’s Blog powered by Amazon CloudFront
AWS – Adding extra EBS volume to your EC2 instance
When you boot an Amazon Linux EC2 instance it boots with a 8GB EBS volume. If you need more space you need to add additional drives. This article can help with that…
Amazon IAM Policy – Readonly Access to single s3 bucket
IAM policy can be used to give readonly access to a single S3 bucket in Amazon cloud for a particular user. { “Statement”: [ { “Action”: [ “s3:GetBucketAcl”, “s3:GetBucketLocation”, “s3:GetBucketNotification”, “s3:GetBucketPolicy”, “s3:GetBucketRequestPayment”, “s3:GetBucketVersioning”, “s3:GetObject”, “s3:GetObjectAcl”, “s3:GetObjectVersion”, “s3:GetObjectVersionAcl”, “s3:ListBucket”, “s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads”, “s3:ListBucketVersions”, “s3:ListMultipartUploadParts” ], “Effect”: “Allow”, “Resource”: [ “arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME”, “arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET_NAME/*” ] } ] }
WordPress S3 plugin updated to 1.1 Alpha
Past couple of days I have been focusing hard to optimize my blog. Related to this I have been working on the next version of s3 plugin. This version supports the following Uploads any media file in the blog to a CDN Support for cloudfront Expire headers Support for CSS and JS compression Dynamic Cache… Continue reading WordPress S3 plugin updated to 1.1 Alpha