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I was asked in the office the other day if I knew how to grab the Users, Groups and Permission sets from IAM Identity Center using a script.

On January 20th 2023, AWS announced a significant improvement to the AWS Marketplace Console, making the seller and customer experience smoother and more appealing.

This blog post is based on a presentation I gave at the Brisbane AWS User group and by the end of this blog, I hope you’ll have a better understanding of Amazon ECS and the benefits it presents to you and your customers.

Hi, My name’s Alan and I’m a self proclaimed AWS evangelist and today I’m going to talk about Amazon S3. For a newbie in the AWS world, this could be daunting. So let’s start from the start. How do we create an S3 bucket?

This video shows how to create an Amazon S3 bucket in 3 different ways - AWS Console, CloudFormation and Terraform. It also covers security best practices like blocking public access and using least privilege.

Create S3 buckets the console way, with CloudFormation code and using Terraform. Learn defaults and how to secure newly created buckets to avoid public exposure

Over the last 12 months I have been working on a volunteer project which allows me to give back to the AWS Certification community. For my efforts over the last 12 months Amazon Web Services Training and Certification awarded me with the “Subject Matter Expert - Associate” badge.

It’s been a whilst since I posted so thought I’d share a snippet I threw together whilst writing a Python script.

In this post I’ll show you how you can acheive an action in Python using the boto3 library on multiple regions.

I’ve spent the last 3 years and 9 months working as an internal MSP to a group of businesses with varying requirements. Other than being part of the same group, they all had one thing in common. They were AWS customers. In fact we went so far to become an AWS Partner, become an AWS Solutions provider and on the journey become an AWS Professional.

Today was the first day of the next step in my career.

This was originally a series of posts explaining careers within the AWS skillset and their related certifications. I’ve now consolodated them into a single post to read easier.

“Hi guys. Just wondering once you complete the AWS Associate certification. What kind of jobs can you do and what’s the pay like?”