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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.

AWS Certificate Manager

2025-11-30T15:04:05+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Types of Certificates For Use With ACM ACM Private Certificate Authority Domain Verification for Certificates Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Certificate Manager Cheat Sheet AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services. It removes the manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing certificates. Public Certificates (Free): Secure public-facing websites (e.g., www.example.com). These are trusted by browsers by default. Private Certificates (Paid): Secure internal resources (e.g., database servers, internal APIs, IoT devices) within [...]

AWS Certificate Manager2025-11-30T15:04:05+00:00

Using the Secure String Parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store

2024-07-10T08:42:49+00:00

What is AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store helps you securely store and share key-value pairs across your AWS environment. It is one of the packages under AWS Systems Manager that helps you design a more robust and abstract infrastructure. With Parameter Store, you don’t have to hard code parameters nor save them in config files for application use. You can easily reference them in your applications and AWS resources using the unique parameter store key of those items.  Parameter Store supports a lot of use cases, from saving unencrypted plaintext to more sensitive information such [...]

Using the Secure String Parameter in Systems Manager Parameter Store2024-07-10T08:42:49+00:00

Amazon Cognito

2025-11-30T10:03:41+00:00

How It Works User Pools Identity Pools Common Use Cases Pricing Validate Your Knowledge Amazon Cognito Cheat Sheet A user management and authentication service that can be integrated to your web or mobile applications. Amazon Cognito also enables you to authenticate users through an external identity provider and provides temporary security credentials to access your app’s backend resources in AWS or any service behind Amazon API Gateway. Amazon Cognito works with external identity providers that support SAML or OpenID Connect, social identity providers (Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple) and you can also [...]

Amazon Cognito2025-11-30T10:03:41+00:00

Amazon Lightsail

2025-11-20T22:06:17+00:00

Bookmarks Features Pricing Limits Amazon Lightsail Cheat Sheet Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use cloud platform that offers everything needed to build an application or website, along with a cost-effective monthly plan. It is a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider designed for developers, small businesses, students, and anyone who needs a simple virtual server solution. Lightsail includes everything you need for your websites and web applications – a virtual machine (choose either Linux or Windows OS), SSD-based storage, data transfer, DNS management, and a static IP address. Features Lightsail Instances and Volumes Lightsail offers virtual [...]

Amazon Lightsail2025-11-20T22:06:17+00:00

SAA-C02 New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020 Exam Materials 

2023-06-12T02:30:30+00:00

SAA-C02 New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020 Exam Materials  Are you planning to take your SAA-C02 (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate) exam soon? In this article, we have compiled a list of helpful SAA-C02 exam prep materials that you can use to help you pass and even ace the exam. What’s this new SAA-C02 exam all about? The popular AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam SAA-C02 is intended for IT Professionals who perform a solutions architect or DevOps role and have substantial years of hands-on experience designing available, cost-efficient, fault-tolerant, and scalable distributed systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) [...]

SAA-C02 New AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate 2020 Exam Materials 2023-06-12T02:30:30+00:00

AWS DataSync

2024-01-18T07:23:36+00:00

Bookmarks How It Works Concepts Features Use Cases Pricing Limits AWS DataSync Cheat Sheet An online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates copying large amounts of data to and from AWS storage services over the internet or AWS Direct Connect.  DataSync can copy data between: Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) file servers,  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets,  Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems,  Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems How It Works Deploy an agent - Deploy a DataSync [...]

AWS DataSync2024-01-18T07:23:36+00:00

SAA-C01 vs SAA-C02 Plus Developing Story: Expiry Date for SAA-C01 Extended to June 30, 2020

2023-12-15T02:12:43+00:00

SAA-C01 vs SAA-C02 Plus Expiry Date for SAA-C01 Extended to June 30, 2020 I took the BETA exam of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 last November and got the results 3 months after. Here’s my experience and I hope this may help you when you take the actual SAA-C02 exam soon. I would say that the new exam version SAA-C02 is at par with the SAA-C01 in terms of exam difficulty and format. It still has two types of questions: Multiple choice (one correct response and three incorrect responses or distractors) and Multiple response (two or more correct responses out of five or [...]

SAA-C01 vs SAA-C02 Plus Developing Story: Expiry Date for SAA-C01 Extended to June 30, 20202023-12-15T02:12:43+00:00

AWS Secrets Manager

2025-12-04T16:00:56+00:00

Bookmarks Features How Secret Rotation Works Security Compliance Pricing Validate Your Knowledge AWS Secrets Manager Cheat Sheet AWS Secrets Manager is a secret management service that enables you to securely rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, OAuth tokens, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle. It eliminates the need to hard-code credentials in applications and improves security posture. Features Encryption & Secure Transmission: Secrets are encrypted at rest using AWS KMS keys (customer-managed or default) and transmitted securely over TLS. Secret Rotation: Rotate secrets on schedule or on demand via [...]

AWS Secrets Manager2025-12-04T16:00:56+00:00

The New Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is now LIVE!

2023-06-07T07:01:16+00:00

The New Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is now LIVE! For the past two years of offering practice test courses on Udemy, we have gathered tons of feedback on how to improve our students’ learning experience. One of the most commonly requested feature is the ability to view the answers as you go through each question. A lot of you are able to learn better with this mode vs. having to wait to finish the entire set before being able to see the answer key. It is therefore with absolute delight that we announce the availability of this feature plus [...]

The New Tutorials Dojo Practice Test Portal is now LIVE!2023-06-07T07:01:16+00:00

AWS CodeStar

2025-11-12T08:54:48+00:00

AWS CodeStar Cheat Sheet A cloud‑based software development service that provides the tools you need to quickly develop, build, and deploy applications on AWS. CodeStar is commonly used along with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline for a robust CI/CD toolchain. Features Each AWS CodeStar project comes with a project management dashboard, including an integrated issue tracking capability that uses Atlassian JIRA Software. With the project management dashboard, you have a unified user interface to monitor application activity, and track progress across all stages of your software development process, including code commits, builds, tests, and deployments. AWS CodeStar provides you a [...]

AWS CodeStar2025-11-12T08:54:48+00:00

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