AWS Archives - Makson Lee

WireGuard Single-Instance VPN: AWS EC2 Instance to MikroTik hEX at Home

In a previous post, I configured a WireGuard site-to-site VPN between my MikroTik hEX router at home and OPNsense 25.7

I installed WireGuard on an Ubuntu 26.04 EC2 instance and connected to the instance through an AWS SSM Session Manager

AWS creates a default VPC in many Regions. It is convenient for quick testing because it already has public subnets,

Makson Lee / January 23, 2026

This post shows how to move a single-node Vault OSS deployment from one EC2 instance to another existing EC2 host

Makson Lee / January 8, 2026

This post upgrades the previous single-PC WireGuard client setup into a site-to-site VPN: Follow-up to: Architecture What changes vs “single

Makson Lee / January 7, 2026

This post shows a complete, reproducible flow: Lab context 1. Install AWS CLI v2 on Ubuntu 24.04 (x86_64) 2. Create

Makson Lee / December 3, 2025

This post extends and shows how to add Amazon EBS as persistent storage using the AWS EBS CSI driver. You’ll

Makson Lee / December 3, 2025

This guide shows how to build a 3-node Kubernetes cluster on AWS EC2 where: We do not use: Instead, we

Makson Lee / September 15, 2025

Zabbix 7.4 includes AWS by HTTP templates. You create a single account host (e.g., aws-prod) and link only the base

Makson Lee / June 21, 2025

When running Keycloak on an AWS EC2 instance, like my own deployment at keycloak.maksonlee.com, you’ll likely want to enable features