Recently AWS announced support for Elasticsearch 5.1 in their Elasticsearch Service. Today, I tried to upgrade an existing CloudFormation stack, previously using Elasticsearch 2.3, to the new version and, after a very long wait, CloudFormation rolled back the stack with the following error: “Creating Elasticsearch Domain did not stabilize“. Here’s what I did to solve it.
Sandboxing the hypervisor
I’m pleased to announce that bhyve, the FreeBSD’s hypervisor, is now sandboxed using Capsicum framework.
How to tag Redshift clusters (and others) in one place in AWS Console
Management page of Redshift in AWS Console does not currently allow you to add or modify tags on your clusters. That doesn’t mean that Redshift resources cannot be tagged – almost everything from clusters to parameters groups can be tagged through the Tag Editor.