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  • Purchasing Your Domain with Amazon Route 53

    Cloud-9.1: Purchasing Your Domain with Amazon Route 53

    Before you can showcase your skills online, you need a digital home, a domain name that makes your portfolio easy to find and uniquely yours! In the Cloud-9 Steps to Building Your Portfolio Website, our journey begins with purchasing a domain with Amazon Route 53, a powerful and seamless [...]

  • Cloud-9 Create Your Portfolio Website with AWS

    Cloud-9: Create Your Portfolio Website with AWS

    Have you ever felt like your resume doesn’t fully capture your potential? In the current competitive job market, a one- or two-page CV may not be sufficient to completely highlight your experience and abilities. So, what's the answer? A portfolio website! What is a Portfolio Website? A portfolio website [...]

  • Netflix Streaming Explained How CDN Technology Ensures Lag-Free Global Viewing Introduction to Global Infrastructure part 1

    Netflix Streaming Explained: How CDN Technology Ensures Lag-Free Global Viewing Introduction to Global Infrastructure part 1

    Have you wondered how Netflix streaming delivers your favorite series in HD quality without buffering or lagging? The answer lies in advanced CDN technology or Content Delivery Networks, a critical element of today's global infrastructure. CDNs enable Netflix to optimize its global streaming performance, drastically reducing latency and providing [...]

  • Lambda and Containers

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    AWS Lambda has revolutionized serverless computing by allowing developers to run code without the hassle of provisioning and managing servers. However, even though AWS Lambda functions are powerful, they still come with limitations that significantly impact scalability, dependency management, and runtime flexibility. In this guide, we will explore the [...]

  • Guarding the Genome: Ensuring Security Compliance for Genomic Data on AWS

    Introduction “Guard”? You’ve read the title and probably thought to yourself, “This sounds serious..."  If you have read the previous articles related to bioinformatics in AWS, you know we are dealing with biological data. If you haven't, you can check them out here as well. Due to the innovation [...]

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    Streamline your SageMaker Environments using Terraform

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  • TD-Google Ads Metrics

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    In digital marketing, every spent on advertising should contribute to measurable growth. But how do you determine if your Google Ads investment is truly delivering results? Businesses can assess the direct relationship between ad spend and conversions by analyzing key data from Google Ads and Google Analytics. This blog [...]

  • Pushing application logs from Amazon Lightsail

    Pushing Application Logs from Amazon Lightsail to Amazon CloudWatch: A Step-by-Step Guide

    In my previous article, I mentioned how you can use your application logs hosted on an Amazon Lightsail instance to create a subscription filter in Amazon CloudWatch. But have you ever wondered how to push your application logs from your Lightsail instance to CloudWatch? Unlike in the EC2 instance, [...]

  • How to Automate Storage and Memory Space Monitoring in Amazon EC2 with CloudWatch and Slack

    Managing resources effectively is crucial when operating in the cloud. One important aspect of managing Amazon EC2 instances is monitoring storage and memory usage. Storage space, primarily driven by Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), and memory (RAM) are two critical resources that need constant monitoring to avoid performance degradation [...]

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  • My AWS Certified SYSOPS Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Experience

My AWS Certified SYSOPS Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Experience

I recently took and passed the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Exam and wanted to share my experience. This was a challenging yet rewarding journey, and I hope my insights will help those planning to take the same path. About the Exam The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate ( SOA-C02 ) is consistently among the top paying IT certifications, considering that Amazon Web Services is the leading cloud services platform in the world with almost 50% market share! [...]

  • VPC Interface Endpoint vs. Gateway Endpoint in AWS

VPC Interface Endpoint vs. Gateway Endpoint in AWS

What is a VPC Endpoint? With a VPC endpoint, you can establish a private connection to specific AWS services and VPC endpoint services through AWS PrivateLink. It eliminates the need for public IP addresses for communication between these services and your Amazon VPC instances. Furthermore, a secure connection is maintained since no information leaves the Amazon network while traveling between your Amazon VPC and the service. VPC endpoints are virtual devices that enable communication [...]

  • Switching Spot Instance to Reserved Instance

Switching Your Spot EC2 Instance to a Reserved EC2 Instance

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a cloud computing service that instantly provides flexible and scalable resources to deploy virtual servers, called instances. While Spot Instances can save you a significant amount of money, especially for short-lived workloads, there may come a time when you need a more predictable pricing model. This is where Reserved Instances (RIs) come in handy. In this article, we'll explain the reasons for switching from a Spot Instance to [...]

  • Securing Application Logs with Amazon Comprehend

Securing Application Logs with Amazon Comprehend

Security is one of the more overlooked aspects that many fall victim to when designing the architecture of applications. Partnering this lack of security priority with the increasing value of personal user data, security breaches become one of the certain ways for companies to lose user trust, face legal charges, and, in the long run, fail.  Various governments developed data compliance laws to set minimum guidelines for security in data handling by data stakeholders. [...]

  • Cloud Career Journeys

3 Ways to Fast Track your Cloud Career Journey this 2024

  I usually have a countdown to the end of the year (even as early as the 1st quarter of the year) that acts as a timebox for me to track my goal progression or even catch up with the old aspirations until the earth completes yet another revolution around the sun. We may not accomplish 100% of our targets, but if we keep a positive disposition in life and persistently work on achieving [...]

  • Building a Simple Video Hosting Service using Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, and AWS Amplify

Building a Simple Video Hosting Service using Amazon CloudFront, Amazon S3, and AWS Amplify

Application Use Case The primary purpose of this application is to share a video as a link and have it accessed by viewers with low latency. This feature is great for those who make quick videos, for example, a short demonstration on how to use an application or a group of academics sharing their explanations to mentor their peers. Overview of the Tech Stack Different video hosting websites cater to [...]

  • Machine Learning Mathematics: Regression Basics

Machine Learning Mathematics: Regression Basics

In recent years, of the ever-evolving landscape of technology, a few of the most prominent buzzwords that continue to capture the imagination of innovators and entrepreneurs alike are Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the boom of OpenAI’s ChatGPT last November 2023, as well as the many that followed suit, including major tech companies like Meta with their LLaMa model and Google’s PaLM and newly announced Gemini, ML and AI will most [...]

  • Release with a Pipeline: Continuous Delivery to AWS with GitHub Actions1

Release with a Pipeline: Continuous Delivery to AWS with GitHub Actions

This is the final part of a three-part article about a Web Application Project from building a private infrastructure to building a deployment pipeline using AWS’ cloud-native continuous delivery service AWS CodePipeline, and now finalizing the infrastructure to be accessible in a public domain and building a pipeline for continuous deployment using a third-party CD tool – GitHub Actions. From the private infrastructure previously built, we will update the S3 policy to add a statement [...]

  • Distributed Data Parallel Training with TensorFlow and Amazon SageMaker Distributed

Distributed Data Parallel Training with TensorFlow and Amazon SageMaker Distributed Training Library

Introduction In the realm of machine learning, the ability to train models effectively and efficiently stands as a cornerstone of success. As datasets grow exponentially and models become more complex, traditional single-node training methods increasingly fall short. This is where distributed training enters the picture, offering a scalable solution to this growing challenge. Distributed Training Overview Distributed training is a technique used to train machine learning models on large datasets more efficiently. By splitting [...]

  • Securing Machine Learning Pipelines: Best Practices in Amazon SageMaker

Securing Machine Learning Pipelines: Best Practices in Amazon SageMaker

Introduction In today's digital era, the importance of security in machine learning (ML) pipelines cannot be overstated. As ML systems increasingly become integral to business operations and decision-making, ensuring the integrity and security of these systems is paramount. A breach or a flaw in an ML pipeline can lead to compromised data, erroneous decision-making, and potentially catastrophic consequences for businesses and individuals alike. This section will delve into why securing ML pipelines is crucial, [...]

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