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My son A walked up to my desk with three sheets of paper - a rules page, a level map on grid paper, and a sticky note titled “sea erchen cutching” - and asked me to make it a real game. Not could I. When....
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My son A walked up to my desk with three sheets of paper - a rules page, a level map...
I’ve got two kids under seven and a full-time job as a corporate senior cloud software engineer, which means my...

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

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

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

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

When I first built theclouddevopslearningblog.com, I chose one of the most common ways to host a static website on AWS:...
Enabling Blog Comments (Again)

Cloud Guru Challenge - October 2020

Cloud Guru Challenge - September 2020

A Shortcoming of the AWS Lambda CLI - EventSourceMappings

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

Course Review: A Cloud Guru, Advanced AWS CloudFormation- Adrian Cantrill Course URL: https://learn.acloud.guru/course/aws-advanced-cloudformation/dashboard
Why (the Hell) is Snapshot the CloudFormation RDS Default Deletion Policy??