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Using Hugo & AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudFront & S3 to deploy a static site

Retrospective: blog deployment model Goal Deploy a personal blog (in this case, troydieter.com) using the below requirements. I’ve used other deployment models, such as CI/CD pipelines – namely Jenkins to deploy static sites. Previous to the below approach, Ghost blog was used in conjunction with Nginx.

AWS Certified Big Data: Specialty study guide

AWS Certified Big Data: Specialty study outline In another installment of study blueprints for AWS certification exams; I am happy to provide my suggested outline for what I used to pass the AWS Certified Big Data Specialty certification in December 2019.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate - Study Guide

With scheduling my AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional for late September 2019, I figured i’d finally compile all of the notes and gathered content for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Professional - Study Guide

As a follow up to my previous post regarding AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate study guide, I figured I’d provide an update.

Extending AWS CLI using aws-shell

Do you yearn for auto-completion and manual pages (automatically) within the AWS CLI tool? Look no more, as aws-shell is here to save (or shell?) the day.

Sizing AWS EFS accordingly

AWS Elastic File System is a great tool for using shared storage in auto scaling group situations. There are two throughput modes to choose from for your file system, Bursting Throughput and Provisioned Throughput. With Bursting Throughput mode, throughput on Amazon EFS scales as the size of your file system in the standard storage class grows. EFS performance is well documented in this AWS knowledge base article, so we won’t get too in-depth here.

Backup AWS Route 53 using AWS Lambda

This has been updated to use AWS CDK and is much more refined. Check out: https://www.troydieter.com/post/r53_backups_2.0/ Need a way to automatically back up your AWS Route53 public DNS zones? Look no further, as a combination of the following AWS products can fit the need: Lambda Route53 CloudWatch S3 This will execute a Lambda function every 6 hours (or whichever you set the CloudWatch event to). It will use the IAM role to export your Route53 public zones as a CSV & JSON to the S3 bucket of your choice.

Diagramming using CloudMapper

The snowball effect for organizations & startups using AWS is a real thing. You may start experimenting with using one of the cloud platforms (AWS in this article) and soon to find out you have quite the labyrinth of policies, groups, users, access keys and more. This handy tool developed by the security company DUO (now owned by Cisco) will help you untangle the ball of yarn that started with a back & forth between you and the developers.

Shared Secret

Goal Create an end-to-end fully encrypted, publicly accessible secret storage tool