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How I Got Started With AWS

In this blog post I am exploring AWS services (EC2). I am currently using a Free Tier license and I am trying to learn how to use. Why? Well, knowing AWS seems to be a very useful skill on the market. And the second reason for that is that I used to have different VMs that cosumed too much memory (HDD and RAM). Now I am also using M1 MacBook Pro and that’s why having so many VMs locally is impossible since there are only some Linux and Windows 10 Machines available for ARM platform. Besides, I’ve notices that I don’t really use them much so having 60 GB of space occupied for occasional usage is weird. Everything speaks in the favour of AWS.

How I Have Built My Lab

One late evening when my eyes were so difficult to keep open, I’ve decided to setup a Windows Lab on my M1 Mac. Long story short, I couldn’t make Autopsy work as expected and that’s why I had to waste my time on this task…

📆 01/03/2021

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First, I had to sign up to Microsoft Insider Program here. It was free and I signed up. Then, I’ve installed Parallels from here using “Try technical preview” option that was available at this point in time. Also, at this point of time a free activation key 🔑 was available for Parallels (thank you 🙏 so much, guys, for this) here. During installation process I was a little bewildered by the question about the use purpose of this software… Gaming or ordinary use (text editing, web-browsing etc). I’ve chosen “Gaming” since I presume Autopsy and software alike do consume much power. However, I’m not sure if this option changes the performance or it’s rather some survey. Anyway. After all that everything worked like a charm. But I still have not tried installing autopsy… So, let’s… .