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You need the following two details in order to communicate with S3. Credentials for an IAM user with read-write access to an S3 bucket. A client such as bash’s aws-cli, Python’s boto library, and so on. Once you have these details, you are ready to move your files. You can move them from your Linux... Continue Reading

Browsers such as Chrome and Firefox have started showing security warnings on sites with valid SSL certificates. Without SSL, the website shows up as insecure to the visitors. Hence, it becomes very important to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS. SSL – Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol that is used for establishing... Continue Reading

There would situations when the OS can go into emergency mode due to several reasons. This particular method is when one of the filesystems in corrupted. This document describes how to exit emergency mode and boot to default mode in Linux. You will see the following screen – Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in,... Continue Reading

Rsync can be used to transfer files and directories over SSH between systems on the network. The most popular protocols are SSH and FTP. FTP is a popular protocol and SSH is the most secure way to transfer files. SCP and SFTP are some of the tools that are available to transfer files over SSH,... Continue Reading