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?”

So recently I had a real world problem to solve from a developer;

“We need a DEV SQL server in a secondary account… and we also need to restore production snapshots from the production account INTO the DEV SQL server“

This is probably a very real requirement people come across every day. Developers needing to restore production data into test and dev servers to ensure the products they are building are fit for purpose.

This is a simple process, documented below, involved a CloudWatch event and a Lambda function.

So I was in the office the other day minding my own business when all of a sudden sprung upon me were over 16,000 log files, totalling in excess of 30GB. I could be a bit more dramatic and say they fell out of the sky, or came flying down the chimney like letters to an orphan boy who lives under the stairs… but alas, this is not Pottermore.

So as you may have noticed by now I’ve gone live with my blog and decided which technology to use. I decided to use a Dynamic editor to allow for instant styling and feature sets, but then to use a static publishing plugin to crate a fast, static and globally delivered website via CloudFront.

It’s always “Day 1”.

So I had the arduous task to build my own blog recently. It’s the time in my new Cloud Career of almost 2 years to start documenting my journey and create a self wiki of my projects.