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How-To: Copy an EBS-Backed AMI from one region to another one
Goal: The goal of this document is to describe the process for copying an Amazon EC2 EBS-Backed AMI from one region to another. We have published an opensource project (CloudyScripts) to automatically...
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Most annoying and at the same time most loved feature of Elastic Detector
During the beta test of Elastic Detector, we had a lot of queries concerning an important feature of Elastic Detector, that is : Elastic Detector considers that an open port in the security groups...
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Amazon EC2 ‘broad character’ support and Security impact on third party tools...
The goal of this document is to enlighten security issues on third party tools that come from some features of the Amazon EC2 console. We are going to explain two security threats, a XSS (cross site...
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CloudyScripts Supports New Amazon EC2 Region: Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
Amazon announces that a new AWS Region in Tokyo is supported (see AWS blogpost for more information). CloudyScripts WebSite CloudyScripts has been updated in order to support this new AWS Region. This...
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Amazon Security Groups: VPC vs EC2
Amazon has updated Security Groups for Amazon VPC Earlier in April, while adding support for Security Groups within Amazon VPC, Amazon also introduced some major changes such as: outbound filtering...
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New CloudyScript: Security Audit via SSH
We are glad to announce a new CloudyScript Security Audit via SSH which makes a Security Audit of an Amazon EC2 AMI. It requires a privileged user that can perform sudo. Security Auditing is very...
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CloudyScripts: Ruby code for command line Security Audit via SSH
Make an audit of an Amazon EC2 AMI using SSH using a ruby script that can be launched from a command line.
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Amazon US West Oregon Region Support in CloudyScripts
A few days ago Amazon announced that a new AWS Region in Oregon is supported (see AWS blogpost for more information). Amazon’s documentation for PVGRUB AKI IDs (which can be found here) was not updated...
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AWS South America support in CloudyScripts
Yesterday, Amazon announced that they have deployed a new region in South America (to Sao Paulo, Brazil) on its blog (the full article could be found here) Even if Amazon documentation did not contain...
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AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) support in CloudyScripts
A few days ago, Amazon announced that they have deployed a new region in Asia Pacific (to Sydney, Australia) on its blog (the full article could be found here) Even if Amazon documentation did not...
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Elastic Vulnerability Assessment (EVA) Credentials for AWS EC2 and VPC
One of the major obstacles to Elastic Detector adoption is the step where infrastructure API credentials are asked. Security guys do not easily give their keys to strangers. We fully understand that,...
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