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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 [...]

Customize Your Invite Links with Amazon S3 Website Redirect

If you use Discord, Slack, or Telegram, you're probably familiar with those long and complicated invite links used to join servers or channels. These links can be difficult to remember and may even discourage some people from joining. With URL redirection, you can create a custom and easy-to-remember domain name for your invite links. For example, you might use a domain like "discord.mycoolsite.com" that redirects to the invitation page of your Discord server, which [...]

Using Amazon Route 53 Resolver

In the previous blog post, we talked about Split-view DNS using Amazon Route 53, in which the DNS server gives out a different response to the same DNS query based on where the query came from. This is helpful if you are in a hybrid environment when you want an internal application to resolve a domain from a private hosted zone and external applications to resolve from a public hosted zone in Route 53. [...]

Is a Cloud Computing Career Still Worth Pursuing in 2023?

Cloud computing has remained a hot topic in the IT field for the past years, gaining even more attention during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2020 and 2021, there’s been a burst of cloud adoption from startups, mid-sized businesses, and even large enterprises as they looked for ways to adapt to remote work and digital operations. And it's no wonder, given the benefits it offers over traditional on-premises solutions, like more flexibility [...]

7 Most In-Demand IT Skills for 2023

Every day the growth of technology is exponential, there will come a time when the technology you've just learned will be obsolete. If you’re currently exploring opportunities in the IT industry, we’re gonna tackle the article provided by Indeed about the best IT jobs for the year 2023. Below, you'll find information that reflects the current trends and offers a chance to explore new career paths. Despite the anticipated advancements in technology, our objective [...]

Using Origin Access Control (OAC) to Secure S3 Object Access to CloudFront

What is Amazon S3 Object Access? Amazon S3 is one of the most popular AWS service organizations use, as it offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance for object storage. S3 is utilized to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics. One of the frequent use cases of [...]

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner CLF-C01 Exam Domains

Amazon Web Services began its Global Certification Program in 2013 with the primary purpose of validating the technical skills and knowledge of IT Professionals in building secure and reliable cloud-based applications using the AWS Cloud. On April 2013, AWS launched its first-ever AWS Certification test called the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam. This was followed by the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator and AWS Certified Developer Associate exams. Amazon has been continuously expanding and [...]

Retrieving Parameter Values from SSM Parameter Store through AWS Lambda

In today's world, serverless computing is gaining popularity as it offers technologies for running code, managing data, and integrating applications, all without managing servers. It eliminates the infrastructure management tasks so developers can focus on application development. One of the requirements of serverless development is storage for configuration data management and secrets management. Developers need to store data such as passwords, database strings, etc., at some point. Luckily, Parameter Store, a capability of AWS [...]

Secure EC2 Instances Connections Leveraging Session Manager

As more workloads are being migrated to the cloud, security should always be a top priority. Some organizations fail to consider security and therefore paid the price of having their workloads compromised. For example, an EC2 instance that has its SSH inbound port open to the world, therefore, providing unrestricted access to attackers globally. Luckily, AWS has a service that allows you to connect to your EC2 instances without opening any inbound port, eliminating [...]

Benefits of Being AWS Certified

Have you ever heard of AWS Certifications? Are you wondering if it is beneficial to get one? Is an AWS certification enough to land a cloud-related job? These are typical questions that aspirants ask and wonder if it’s favorable to commit to studying. For this article, we will discuss the benefits of being AWS certified and whether it’s worth it to invest time and effort. Let’s get started. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the [...]

5 Best Cloud Projects For Beginners

If you are a student, career changer, or IT professional who wants to work in the cloud computing industry, you must present your portfolio to the interviewer. A portfolio is a collection of previous projects and experiences, which can be paid or unpaid. This shows the interviewer that you know what you're talking about and that you have the skills required for the job. As a beginner, you must understand how to use a [...]