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HOWTOs

The Northwestern Cloud Community of Practice maintains these Cloud HOWTO pages. If you would like to contribute a page or have suggestions, please let us know!

Use NetID Authentication with the AWS CLI
Use your NetID and MFA with AWS command line tools.

Tag Resources for Cost Allocation in CloudCheckr
Track your cloud spending by project/environment/etc.

Sending AWS Logs to Splunk
Use Splunk to record and search all kinds of events in your AWS account.

Find Untagged Resources
Multiple approaches to finding untagged or improperly tagged resources in AWS or Azure.

Reboot an EC2 instance
Reboots can resolve issues with unavailable or unresponsive instances.

Get Notifications for AWS GuardDuty Findings
Be notified of potential security incidents in your AWS account immediately.

Enable SSO for Northwestern GitHub Orgs
Allow members of your GitHub org to log in with their Northwestern NetIDs.