My Journey to Lambda School
For the past several months, I have been doing a lot of research and investigation into coding bootcamps. Why exactly have I decided to enroll…
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What Makes AWS So Popular?
Nowadays, Amazon Web Services seems to be omnipresent on the World Wide Web. Indeed, with over a hundred thousand active users and partners like Netflix,…
Mounting an EBS Volume
As you learn AWS, you are kind of forced to pick up the linux command line along the way. Here, we are going to learn…
Monitoring EC2 Memory with CloudWatch
An important AWS exam topic is to know what Cloudwatch can monitor by default. If you go to the cloudwatch metrics, you can see some…
Getting Ready for the Exam
I registered for the Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam August 12th, 2018. This is the official final day you can take the older version of…
Flow Logs Basics
AWS is jam packed with tons of information to learn and use. One of these things are Flow Logs. A Flow log is an option…
Building Secure Web Servers on AWS
When talking AWS, you will often hear buzzwords like, “highly-available, highly secure, fault tolerant architecture.” Buzz words are in reality important concepts, but most people…
EC2 Instance Metadata
Metadata is an important concept in the IT world. In short, it simply is data about your data. For EC2, metadata is the information about…
Self Destruct an EC2
You can do interesting things with the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface). One of those things is to cause an EC2 instance to self destruct. …
Amazon EBS vs. Ephemeral Storage
EC2 Instances primarily utilize storage known as EBS Volumes. But this isn’t the only type of storage that is available. There’s another type, known as…
