Prince Praveen | DevOps Professional

Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is one of the roles under server roles provided by Microsoft Windows Server. What makes RDS different from a usual remote desktop connection is the the number of concurrent connections to the remote host. By default Windows enables only two concurrent session for a user to access a remote server using RDP. If you require many users to connect to a remote server (aka Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) ), you will to procure client access license (CAL) to achieve the same. We'll see how to provision this setup and their requirements.

Security Best Practices Security is the key concern on the cloud. While most of the cloud providers do offer industry standard security features, it comes under the ownership of the customer (or in the hands of cloud devops engineers). So security breach is on you.....! Today, we are going to see how to leverage the security features provided by Amazon Web Services Cloud in terms of Infrastructure (the cloud itself) , EC2, VPC, RDS and Identity in general. Infrastructure IAM Usage Root account credentials and its Access and Secret Keys are like Credit Card numbers and can be used for any root level activities once compromised. Instead create and use IAM account with required privileges assigned. For multi-level privileged users with access to sensitive resources and programming interfaces, it is recommended to enable MFA It's more secure to start with a minimum set of permissions and grant additional permissions as necessary, rather than starting with permissions that are too lenie...