Backing up Aurora MySQL

AWS Aurora MySQL doesn’t allow us to take backup of individual tables or database other than doing a regular mysqldump which can be difficult to restore. The option is to take a backup of the entire database instance.  Restoring an individual or a set of tables can be a cumbersome process.  I wrote a quick python … Read more

Creating Docker Image for Jupyter Notebook

Below are the steps for creating docker image for running a Jupyter Notebook with the latest python module .  You can run this for any operating systems that supports docker. If you haven’t downloaded the docker desktop. Please do so from here Creating a Docker image with Jupyter Notebook and Python involves several steps, including … Read more

Copy S3 objects across AWS Accounts

This will show you how to copy objects between S3 buckets across different AWS Accounts. Its not an easy drag and drop. Not sure why Amazon doesn’t provide an easy “SFTP” like feature. Here are the steps: Prerequisites You would need access to both the AWS accounts You need IAM user access on the destination … Read more