I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, now what?
So, you passed the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam, now what? First, congratulations on your achievement, you’ve taken your first step towards building a career in cloud computing. If you wanted to gain a high-level understanding of the cloud or to understand the value proposition, you can now feel confident in your knowledge. There are three distinct routes forward, which is reflected in the three Associate Level Exams.
Cloudformation vs Terraform
You might’ve heard about Infrastructure as Code ( IAC). The most popular tools for IAC are Amazon’s Cloudformation and Hashicorp’s Terraform.
AWS Cloud Practitioner Frequently Asked Questions
We teach in-person workshops, produce instructional videos, maintain a GitHub repository, and publish a blog about AWS. Our students and viewers often ask us for…
AWS Cloud Practioner Exam Tips
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest provider of cloud computing. As such, proficiency and familiarity of AWS is important to professionals working not just…
AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam official Sample Questions and answers.
Watch this video below where I go over the sample questions and answers for the AWS Cloud practitioner exam. Let us know if you have…
Improve your understanding of EC2 with these 20 concepts.
In the above video, we introduce Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computer (EC2) service to an audience with no prior knowledge of the topic. This video will…
Send SMS/text message quickly using the AWS CLI
If you want to quickly send an sms using the AWS CLI, then you can use the following command below. This comes in handy when…
Cloudformation Intrinsic Functions : GetAtt vs Ref
AWS CloudFormation provides several built-in functions that help you manage your stacks. Among them, 2 of the most used are Fn::GetAtt and Ref . I’ve…
AWS System Manager Parameter Store step-by step tutorial
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure storage for secrets management. You can store data such as passwords, database strings etc parameter values. You…
AWS tutorial: Download an entire S3 bucket using the AWS CLI
Have you ever tried to download an entire bucket with the console? It’s easy to do with the AWS Command Line Interface In this…
How to generate pre signed URL’s for Amazon S3 Objects
What is a pre signed URL ? A user can share private objects with others by creating a pre-signed URL, using their own security credentials,…
Monitor Memory Utilization on EC2 instances with Cloudwatch Custom metrics
If you go to the monitoring tab of your EC2 instance in AWS , you will see that you can only monitor a few things…
Encrypt a file on S3 using Server Side Encryption Customer provided keys (SSE-C)
According to the documentation, requirements for SSE-C are as follows: –sse-c (string) Specifies server-side encryption using customer provided keys of the the object in…
AWS: Cross Account S3 Bucket access using Bucket Policy
In this post I’ll walk you through on how to setup cross Account S3 Bucket access using Bucket Policy. You can watch this youtube video or…
CloudFormation Demystified
When I first heard the idea of cloudFormation, it sounded much complex than it really is. In this post, I will try to simplify cloudFormation…
What can you do if you lose a .pem file and need to access the server?
There are 2 Options: Make an Amazon Machine Image(AMI). Launch a new instance from the AMI, and specify a new keypair. Detach that EBS Volume…
How to copy ssh key to a bastion host on a Linux or a Mac.
If you’re looking for an easy way to copy ssh keys from a MacOs machine to a server working as a bastion host. Before this…
What is EC2 CPU credits?
T2 instances are types of instances that make use of CPU credits. This also means that not all instances types have CPU credits. When you…
Demystifying AWS Lambda: How AWS Lambda works in simple words
When I first started learning about the AWS services, one of the most interesting service to me was AWS Lambda. For some reason, AWS Lambda…
What is Elastic Load Balancer Connection Draining?
In AWS, when you enable Connection Draining on a load balancer, any back-end instances that you deregister will complete requests that are in progress before…
A quick lesson on DynamoDB and boto3
Using database isn’t complicated anymore. I am a big fan of the NOSQL database service offered by aws which is called DynamoDB.You can create a…
How to launch a WordPress Blog with AWS Cloud formation.
If you’ve been thinking about setting up a website for yourself, a WordPress website is a quick way to get started. WordPress is a software…
AWS Tutorial: Stop your EC2 Instances Every night with Lambda functions and Cloudwatch
If you want to schedule a cron job to stop all your EC2 instances on the cloud, what do you do? Do you have to…