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I Built a Free Typing Tutor for Kids Because Every Other One Wanted My Credit Card
aws16 Jun 2026

I Built a Free Typing Tutor for Kids Because Every Other One Wanted My Credit Card

My kid is seven and ready to start learning to type. I figured finding a good website for this would...

I Built a Serverless Meme Generator with AI Coding — Here's What Actually Happened
aws27 May 2026

I Built a Serverless Meme Generator with AI Coding — Here's What Actually Happened

I wanted a quick side project. Something visual, a little silly, and just complex enough to flex some AWS muscles....

How I Hosted a JavaScript Single-Page App (BreweriesNearMe) on a Subdomain with S3, CloudFront and Route 53
devops7 Oct 2025

How I Hosted a JavaScript Single-Page App (BreweriesNearMe) on a Subdomain with S3, CloudFront and Route 53

One of the best things about static sites hosted on AWS is how easy it is to extend them. My...

Building an End-to-End Brewery Scraper for Australian Data for OpenBreweryDB
devops4 Oct 2025

Building an End-to-End Brewery Scraper for Australian Data for OpenBreweryDB

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devops1 Oct 2025

Automating Jekyll Builds and S3 Deployments with GitHub Actions

For a long time, I was manually building my Jekyll blog and pushing the generated _site directory up to S3....

How I Fixed an Expired SSL Certificate on My S3 + CloudFront Static Site
aws29 Sep 2025

How I Fixed an Expired SSL Certificate on My S3 + CloudFront Static Site

When I first built theclouddevopslearningblog.com, I chose one of the most common ways to host a static website on AWS:...

blog13 Dec 2024

Enabling Blog Comments (Again)

Enabling Blog Comments (Again)

 Netflix Style Recommendation Engine with Amazon SageMaker #CloudGuruChallenge
aws4 Nov 2020

Netflix Style Recommendation Engine with Amazon SageMaker #CloudGuruChallenge

Cloud Guru Challenge - October 2020

COVID Data Engineering in AWS and Python #CodeGuruChallenge
aws16 Oct 2020

COVID Data Engineering in AWS and Python #CodeGuruChallenge

Cloud Guru Challenge - September 2020

A Shortcoming of the AWS Lambda CLI -  EventSourceMappings
aws20 Jun 2020

A Shortcoming of the AWS Lambda CLI - EventSourceMappings

A Shortcoming of the AWS Lambda CLI - EventSourceMappings

Creating CodeCommit HTTPS Security Credentials With CloudFormation Lambda-based Custom Resource
aws6 Jun 2020

Creating CodeCommit HTTPS Security Credentials With CloudFormation Lambda-based Custom Resource

Creating CodeCommit HTTPS Security Credentials With CloudFormation Lambda-based Custom Resource

Course Review: A Cloud Guru, Advanced AWS CloudFormation- Adrian Cantrill
aws28 May 2020

Course Review: A Cloud Guru, Advanced AWS CloudFormation- Adrian Cantrill

Course Review: A Cloud Guru, Advanced AWS CloudFormation- Adrian Cantrill Course URL: https://learn.acloud.guru/course/aws-advanced-cloudformation/dashboard

aws24 May 2020

Why (the Hell) is Snapshot the CloudFormation RDS Default Deletion Policy??

Why (the Hell) is Snapshot the CloudFormation RDS Default Deletion Policy??

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