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About Jon Bonso

Jon Bonso is the co-founder of Tutorials Dojo, an EdTech startup and an AWS Digital Training Partner that provides high-quality educational materials in the cloud computing space. He graduated from Mapúa Institute of Technology in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Information Technology. Jon holds 10 AWS Certifications and is also an active AWS Community Builder since 2020.

Increasing MTU for Your EC2 Instance

2023-06-05T02:27:26+00:00

What is MTU? MTU (maximum transmission unit) is the maximum size of one packet of data that can be transferred in a network. The default MTU size for Ethernet devices is 1500 bytes. This packet size contains the actual payload data as well as network overhead information needed for communication within the network. All AWS EC2 instances support the default MTU size. But many current instance sizes support 9001 MTU, also referred to as jumbo frames. Enabling jumbo frames for supported EC2 instances can be beneficial because it improves network efficiency by allowing your instance to send fewer packets with [...]

Increasing MTU for Your EC2 Instance2023-06-05T02:27:26+00:00

Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools

2023-06-23T05:00:39+00:00

Bookmarks Amazon Cognito User Pools Amazon Cognito Identity Pools With the proliferation of smartphones in our connected world, more and more developers are quickly deploying their applications on the cloud. One of the first challenges in developing applications is allowing users to log in and authenticate on your applications. There are multiple stages involved in user verification and most of these are not visible from the end-user. AWS provides an easy solution for this situation. User Identity verification is at the core of Amazon Cognito. It provides solutions for three key areas of user identification:  [...]

Amazon Cognito User Pools vs Identity Pools2023-06-23T05:00:39+00:00

AWS Transit Gateway

2023-06-23T06:56:04+00:00

Bookmarks Features Validate Your Knowledge AWS Transit Gateway Cheat Sheet A networking service that uses a hub and spoke model to enable customers to connect their on-premises data centers and their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to a single gateway. With this service, customers only have to create and manage a single connection from the central gateway into each on-premises data center, remote office, or VPC across your network. If a new VPC is created, it is automatically connected to the Transit Gateway and will also be available to every other network that is also [...]

AWS Transit Gateway2023-06-23T06:56:04+00:00

Locking your Glacier Vault using the Amazon S3 Glacier API

2023-06-05T03:07:24+00:00

What is Amazon S3 Glacier Vault Lock A Glacier Vault can be described as a container for your archived objects in S3 Glacier. To begin using Amazon S3 Glacier, you need a vault. Creating and deleting vaults can be easily done in the AWS Management Console, but interacting with them requires you to use the APIs. For example, let’s say you want to upload images or log files to your vault. To do so, you would either use the AWS CLI or write code that would upload these objects. Large corporations often have compliance requirements with how they store their [...]

Locking your Glacier Vault using the Amazon S3 Glacier API2023-06-05T03:07:24+00:00

AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C02 Exam Guide Study Path

2024-02-19T06:25:42+00:00

Bookmarks SCS-C02 Study Materials AWS Services to Focus On SCS-C02 Common Exam Scenarios Validate Your Knowledge The AWS Specialty certification exams are intended for people who handle more specific responsibilities in AWS Cloud. Since these responsibilities demand a more advanced skill set with prior experience from a person, these AWS specialty exams are built so that they could reinforce and validate a person’s eligibility for that role. There are no associate and professional levels in a specialty learning path, so the exams serve as the whole package already. And since they are made [...]

AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C02 Exam Guide Study Path2024-02-19T06:25:42+00:00

Amazon S3 Bucket Policies for VPC Endpoints

2023-06-05T03:11:03+00:00

Amazon S3 and Amazon VPC Relationship Amazon S3 is a versatile object storage solution that boasts virtually unlimited storage capacity. You can expect that your files will be durably stored in S3 given that AWS provides an SLA for this service. When creating your S3 bucket, AWS provides you with a unique bucket URL that you can use to access your S3 bucket directly from the public internet, if you have public access enabled.  Amazon S3 is a service that is not used within a VPC. This means that traffic does not pass through VPC resources such as internet gateways [...]

Amazon S3 Bucket Policies for VPC Endpoints2023-06-05T03:11:03+00:00

AWS Fargate

2024-01-18T06:54:50+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works Use Case Network Compliance Pricing AWS Fargate Cheat Sheet A serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). With Fargate, no manual provisioning, patching, cluster capacity management, or any infrastructure management required.   How It Works Use Case Launching containers without having to provision or manage EC2 instances. If you want a managed service for container cluster management. Configurations Amazon ECS task definitions for Fargate require that you specify CPU and memory at the task level [...]

AWS Fargate2024-01-18T06:54:50+00:00

Which AWS Certification Exam Is Right For Me? – Part 1

2024-03-26T05:08:27+00:00

Bookmarks Which AWS Certification Exam is Right for Me? AWS FOUNDATIONS LEARNING PATH AWS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT LEARNING PATH AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Certification AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Certification AWS CERTIFIED DEVELOPER LEARNING PATH AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification OPERATIONS LEARNING PATHS AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate Certification AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional Certification RECERTIFICATION Want to boost your career by becoming AWS certified but not sure which AWS certification exam to take? Tutorials Dojo is here to help you [...]

Which AWS Certification Exam Is Right For Me? – Part 12024-03-26T05:08:27+00:00

Amazon Detective

2023-06-23T07:02:45+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Limits Common Use Cases Amazon Detective Cheat Sheet The service automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning, statistical analysis, and graph theory to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct faster and more efficient security investigations.  Can be integrated with AWS security services like Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Macie, and AWS Security Hub as well as partner security products to identify potential security issues, or findings. Amazon Detective can analyze trillions of events from multiple data sources such as VPC Flow Logs, AWS [...]

Amazon Detective2023-06-23T07:02:45+00:00

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