Posts tagged: aws

This is a really great animation of latency across different aws regions based on us-east-1.

Imagine waking up to a $1,300 for running an example project! That sounds like peanuts for a cloud bill but for an individual trying to learn that hits my monthly budget real hard.

That’s what happened to Marciej, make sure you check out the full article and give them a 👏 on Medium if you have an account.

The more I see things come out about aws, the more it makes me sick, and confirm my feelings that I cannot possibly use them for a side project without some real $$ planning to come out of it.

Yes, S3 charges for unauthorized requests (4xx) as well[1]. That’s expected behavior.

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Wow, shocked at these results. All this time I’ve been told and believed that k8s is incredibly hard, and you need a $1M problem before you think about it because it will take a $1M team to maintain it. So far my experience has been good, and I definitely do not have a $1M problem in my homelab.

Upon first running an aws cli command using localstack you might end up with the following error.

Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".

Easy way #

The easy easiest way is to leverage a package called awscli-local.

pipx install awscli-local

Leveraging the awscli #

If you want to use the cli pro

I ran into an issue where I was unable to ask localstack for its status. I would run the command and it would tell me that it didn’t have permission to read files from my own home directory. Let’s fix it

I would run this to ask for the status.

localstack status

And get this error

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/waylon/.cache/localstack/image_metadata'

What happened #

It dawned on me that the first time I ran localstack was straight docker, not the python cli. When docker runs it typically runs as root unless the Dockerfile sets up a user and group for it.

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