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Access EC2 Instances privately using AWS Systems Manager

This article provides a tutorial on accessing AWS EC2 instances using AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and outlines the benefits and prerequisites associated with this approach. The key advantages include avoiding exposure of instances to the public internet, managing multiple instances without sharing SSH keys, and executing commands on instances without direct login.

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Setup and configure iptables in Ubuntu

A practical guide to understanding and using iptables in Linux. In this blog post, we explore what a firewall is and how iptables can be used to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IP packet filter rules within the Linux kernel, and setup iptables-persistent to persist ephemeral firewall rules. It also provides a step-by-step guide on how to block incoming http connections to a webserver and then unblock it using iptables commands.

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