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Prevent EC2 Downtime: Setting Up Status Check Alarms to Auto-Reboot an Instance
When you’re running a production website on an EC2 instance, the last thing you want is for it to unexpectedly go down while you’re focused on other tasks. Without the right monitoring in place, you might not even realize your site has been offline for a while, and repeated [...]
Securing Your Website in Containerized Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting-up HTTPS
So, you have just deployed your first app to the cloud (maybe you have followed the tutorial that we have for deployment insert link here), it’s running great, you have your users now, but then you noticed that little “Not Secure” warning in the browser. Suddenly, your app looks… [...]
Mastering Cloud-Based Semantic Search: Advanced Cloud Search Architectures Made Easy
In today's AI-driven world, finding information based on meaning and context rather than exact keywords has become crucial. Good thing we now have vector search, enabling semantic search, personalized recommendations, image similarity, and more. However, building and managing vector search infrastructure can be complex. Fortunately, AWS offers zero-infrastructure managed [...]
Prevent Unforeseen Azure Costs: Setting Up Automated Slack Alerts for Your Subscription
Cloud computing gives companies access to cutting-edge services, flexibility, and scalability. Effective cost management, however, is one of the main challenges to cloud adoption. Despite Azure's robust offerings, businesses risk unexpectedly high costs if they don't have active monitoring. Image generated by Gemini This is where cost monitoring and automated [...]
Beginner’s Guide to Gamma – Let AI Build Your Presentations
Ever wish you could skip the boring parts of making slides and focus on your ideas? Instead, imagine jumping straight into expressing them clearly and beautifully without wrestling with layouts. Moreover, if you’ve ever felt stuck or simply want to save time building presentations, Gamma is the most beginner-friendly [...]
AWS Student Community Day 2025: Mega Manila at Jose Rizal University
AWS Student Community Day 2025: Mega Manila at JRU September 17, 2025 marked a milestone for student communities across Mega Manila. The José Rizal University (JRU) campus came alive with energy as it welcomed hundreds of students for AWS Student Community Day 2025, an annual gathering that empowers the [...]
Build a Simple Mood Journal App with Electron.js
As someone who has been interested in mini desktop applications, I decided to build my own mood journal app to track my daily thoughts and reflections. What better way to learn Electron than by creating something practical? In this tutorial, I will guide you through the process of building [...]
Tech Internships for Future Job Market Readiness in 2025
The tech job market in 2025 continues to expand at lightning speed, with new roles and technologies emerging almost every month. At the same time, competition for these positions grows more intense as thousands of graduates enter the workforce with similar academic qualifications. In this environment, a degree alone [...]
The Evolution of Wearable Technology: Shaping the Future of Work, Communication, and Health
Wearable technology has rapidly evolved, transforming everything from healthcare to communication. Today, wearables offer exciting opportunities, enabling a future where technology seamlessly integrates into our daily lives. Innovations, such as Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, are pushing the boundaries of wearable tech. However, the key question remains: how does wearable [...]
AWS Bedrock’s Intelligent Prompt Routing: Smarter AI for Everyone
When we interact with AI models, we often expect them to instantly understand our intent and give the right answer. But the truth is, not every model is designed for every type of task. Some are fast but shallow, others are detailed but resource-heavy. Here’s a question I always [...]

New AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF-C01 BETA Exam Guide

Do you always sharpen your competitive edge in the highly competitive IT industry? Are you planning to position yourself for career growth and reach greater remuneration? Generative AI has been making waves in almost every aspect of the economy and job market to the point that the skills you have today could be worth less, or even worth absolutely nothing by nascent AI-powered tools from OpenAI's ChatGPT, Meta's LLaMa, Google's Gemini and the suite [...]

Setting Up Slack Notifications for AWS Budget Alerts

Introduction Managing cloud costs effectively is crucial for businesses. AWS provides a feature to set budget alerts that notify you when your costs exceed a certain threshold. While these alerts can be sent via email, they can sometimes get lost in the flurry of daily emails, leading to delayed responses. This is where real-time Slack notifications for AWS budget alerts come into play. By integrating AWS budget alerts with Slack, these notifications are sent [...]

Understanding and Managing AWS Lambda Recursive Loop Invocations

Introduction AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that allows developers to run code without provisioning or managing servers. It automatically scales applications by running code in response to events and only charges for the compute time used. This makes AWS Lambda an ideal choice for building scalable and cost-effective applications. However, one challenge that developers might encounter is recursive loop invocations. This occurs when a Lambda function inadvertently triggers itself, leading to a [...]

Basic Authentication with AWS Rekognition

In this day of technology, it feels like every application has an AI/ML feature built into it, be it home appliances or accessories, chatbots in websites, or even watches. Not having a feature that uses AI or ML in your application feels like you're getting left behind, and it's very beneficial for users. But building an ML/AI feature from the ground up is no easy task, and it takes time and effort to add [...]

Managing AWS Resources from Slack with Slash Commands

Slack is a crucial application for most businesses. It allows the people working within to seamlessly communicate with one another. Slack offers a lot of features such as channels for text communication, huddles for group calls, canvas for a synchronized knowledge base, and more. As businesses or professionals in the tech industry, you'd be glad to know that Slack also supports app integrations, allowing you to bring your technical workflow right into your channels [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Bonus Part: Machine Learning and AI

Over the past few years, AI has become the number 1 trend in the tech industry and it's easy to see why. With powerful generative AI models like GPT4, we are starting to experience what AI can really do. Fast forward to the present, many businesses rely on AI to improve their efficiency and optimize their expenses. With our growing application, we can utilize AI to give a better user experience and grow our [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 5: Security

With our application available on the internet for millions of users to access, it is now more vulnerable than ever to exploitations and cyber attacks like unauthorized access or Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS). Security could either make or break our application and it is a topic that we must not ignore. With thousands of user data under our protection, it is up to us to properly safeguard our application. Welcome to part 5 of my 6-part series [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 4: Network

Cloud Service Providers, such as AWS, use various networking features to power its cloud computing platform. Having foundational computer networking knowledge will certainly come handy to properly configure your cloud applications and systems. It's important to know about the basics such as the 7 layers of the Open System Intercommunication (OSI) Model and Domain Name System (DNS) but fortunately, AWS makes some parts of networking easier for us. Welcome to part 5 of my [...]

Basics of the Basics to AWS – Part 3: Databases

Data plays an important part in today's world and there's no better way to handle data than with a database. The only question now is whether we need a structured database or a more flexible database. Welcome to part 3 of my 6-part series called Basics of the Basics to AWS, where I introduce you to AWS by breaking it down into smaller digestible concepts related to software development. In this article, I will [...]

Unified Slack Automation for Purging the Cache

Cached data can sometimes be corrupted, which can lead to performance problems. It can also prevent applications and websites from loading the latest version of their content. That’s why clearing cache is a must, not only does it resolve these issues, it also clears up space. Clearing cache is also a way to protect privacy since cache can hold sensitive information. About the task Currently, when purging the cache for both TD Portal and [...]