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If you’re looking to break into the world of cloud computing, getting your first AWS certification is a great place to start. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is the leading cloud platform and having a certification on your resume can open up a world of opportunities. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to get your … Read more
If you’re trying to ping your windows instance and you cannot, one of the likely reasons is that ICMP is blocked by the firewall. Here is how you can enable ICMP in your Windows Firewall. To allow ICMP (ping) through the Windows Firewall, follow these steps: Open the Windows Firewall GUI Add a new inbound … Read more
ACSM stands for “Adobe Content Server Manager” and refers to a file format used by Adobe Digital Editions, a piece of software used for managing and reading ebooks. What is an ACSM file really? ACSM files are used to download and activate ebooks from digital libraries and online bookstores such as the Rakuten Kobo Store. … Read more
Amazon S3 What is Amazon S3 Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a scalable, high-performance object storage service that is designed for storing large amounts of unstructured data, such as videos, images, audio files, and backups. It offers high durability and availability, as well as the ability to access data from anywhere on the internet. … Read more
Sometimes you need a particular version of python, in this guide we will go over how to install python 3.8 on Ubuntu or any other specific version of Python on Ununtu. First install the prerequisites Add the official source for python to your sources list Run the python 3.8 install command Verify python 3.8 is … Read more
Quick Fixes for Permission denied (publickey): Make sure you are using the right key. Make sure you are using the right username. Make sure you are connecting to the right IP. Read on in the article for more details. Get the correct ssh command from the AWS console This command from AWS should be exactly … Read more
I got this error today with AWS SAM: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils.cmd’, here is how I fixed it. Keep reading below for more details. Quick Fix for ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘distutils.cmd’ The issue for me was pip, which comes with distutils, wasn’t installed for python 3.9, which is what AWS SAM was trying … Read more
Linux battery life on laptops is known not to be great. Due to the need to test on so many types of hardware, it isn’t feasible for distros to be optimized for it out of the box. Here are my notes on what I’ve done to optimize Ubuntu battery life on my laptop, while some … Read more
aws:asset:path is a type of metadata which can be configured in CloudFromation for a Lambda function. Below are my notes on how to use it, specifically for use with AWS SAM directly with standard CloudFormation. Use aws:asset:path to specify the location of code for Lambda Function in CloudFormation for use with SAM. Using SAM with … Read more
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How to fix the AWS SAM error samcli.commands.exceptions.UserException: NodejsNpmBuilder:MoveDependencies – [WinError 145] The directory is not empty I’ve been seeing this error intermittently for some time. It comes intermittent. Fix for [WinError 145] The directory is not empty Just delete the .aws-sam directory whenever this error occurs or ignore it. If you run the command … Read more
