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.
You might’ve heard about Infrastructure as Code ( IAC). The most popular tools for IAC are Amazon’s Cloudformation and Hashicorp’s Terraform.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure storage for secrets management. You can store data such as passwords, database strings etc parameter values. You…
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…
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,…
If you go to the monitoring tab of your EC2 instance in AWS , you will see that you can only monitor a few things…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…