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Using an Access Token for the first time

Follow the instructions on Github to Create an Access Token in Github

Configure Git to use the osxkeychain

By default, git credentials are not cached so you need to tell Git if you want to avoid having to provide them each time Github requires you to authenticate. On Mac, Git comes with an “osxkeychain” mode, which caches credentials in the secure keychain that’s attached to your system account.

You can tell Git you want to store credentials in the osxkeychain by running the following:-

Update: As of 11 January 2022, git.io no longer accepts new URLs.

Command:

curl https://git.io/ -i -F "url=https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_URL" -F "code=YOUR_CUSTOM_NAME"

URLs that can be created is from:

https://github.com/*
https://*.github.com

RDS Pricing Markup

Looking at what the markup is on per-hour price of on-demand RDS instances vs on-demand EC2 instances.

See the python code for the analysis.

In the columns below

ec2 = base EC2 instances from us-east-1
p = RDS Postgres flavor

	cat botocore/data/endpoints.json \| jq -cr '.partitions[0].services \| keys[] as $k \| .[$k] \| .endpoints\|to_entries[]\| .key +"\t"+ $k' \| sort \| cut -f1 \| uniq -c \| sort -nr \| sed 's/^ \([0-9][0-9]\) /\1 /' \| grep -v fips


	126 us-east-1
	116 us-west-2
	115 eu-west-1
	101 ap-southeast-2
	100 ap-northeast-1
	97 eu-central-1
	95 us-east-2

	a4b
	account
	acm
	acm-pca
	amplify
	apigateway
	application-autoscaling
	appstream
	appsync
	artifact

	AWS::AmazonMQ::Broker
	AWS::AmazonMQ::Configuration
	AWS::ApiGateway::Account
	AWS::ApiGateway::ApiKey
	AWS::ApiGateway::Authorizer
	AWS::ApiGateway::BasePathMapping
	AWS::ApiGateway::ClientCertificate
	AWS::ApiGateway::Deployment
	AWS::ApiGateway::DocumentationPart
	AWS::ApiGateway::DocumentationVersion

	AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
	Description: 'Provides Summit Route with the ability to perform a security assessment on this account. An IAM role is created to provide view-only access of the metadata in the account. Read and write access to the Athena and Glue services is also granted for CloudTrail log analysis, and if the S3 bucket for the CloudTrail logs is provided, then read access is granted to that bucket.'
	Parameters:
	S3Bucket:
	Description: 'S3 bucket for CloudTrail logs (optional). Example: For the bucket "s3://mycloudtrail", you would put "mycloudtrail" (without quotes) here.'
	Type: 'String'
	Conditions:
	HasS3Bucket: !Not [ !Equals ['', !Ref 'S3Bucket']]
	Resources:
	CFNSummitRouteRole:

	5 Abort
	9 Accept
	3 Acknowledge
	4 Activate
	48 Add
	23 Admin
	6 Allocate
	4 Apply
	2 Approve
	1 Archive

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