[freshports-coders] FreshPorts & AWS - trimming excess services

[Dan Langille]

> On Jan 21, 2021, at 7:15 PM, Ihor Antonov <ihor at antonovs.family> wrote:
> 
> On 1/21/21 3:16 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> 
>> My current request is guidance for removing various services which are no longer required. I want to make sure they are not used before deleting them. From trial and error while getting FreshPorts working, I have multiple instances of these which I wish to remove:
>> *subnets
>> * VPC
>> * Internet Gateways
>> * Egress Internet Gateways
>> * Network ACLS
>> For example, my RDS instance has 6 subnets - not all of them are required.
>> While I think I could do that on my own, having another set of eyes / recommendations would help.
>> I also need to change the RDS subnet to a non-routable subnet.  Right now, it's on 54.242.45.0/24 address but only accepting incoming connections from my EC2 instance.
> 
> Hey Dan
> 
> It is hard to give you concrete recommendations without at least read-only access to AWS account. It is totally possible to create IAM users with read-only access. Is this something you might consider doing?
> 

Yes.

Those interested should reply off list with the email address or account ID related of your existing AWS account.

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/