AWS

How to Enable HTTPS for Amazon Elastic Beanstalk

Have you ever been stuck on a problem that makes you feel so stupid, you get a serious case of impostor syndrome? Welcome to another instalment of Amazon Beanstalk bad UX. You go to the listeners section in the load balancer configuration section, you get to this popup: You choose HTTPS, you enter port 443 and you hit add. You see “pending create” in the list and assume that you’ve just configured your load balancer to support HTTPS. All is well.

How to Fix Access Denied MySQL Error on AWS RDS

If you’re getting the error `Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SUPER, SYSTEM_VARIABLES_ADMIN or SESSION_VARIABLES_ADMIN privilege(s) for this operation` while trying to import a database dump you have done using mysqldump, you might have encountered this issue. In my situation, I am using Amazon Lightsail and migrating a database to a newer database instance. I ran a mysqldump and then attempted to import the dump into the new database.