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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 [...]

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    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… [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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 [...]

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    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

    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

    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 [...]

  • Amazon Bedrock's Intelligent Prompt Routing: Smarter AI for Everyone

    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 [...]

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AWS CloudFormation Deletion Policy

Deleting a stack on CloudFormation also removes all the provisioned resources in it. In some cases, you want some resources to be retained even after deleting its stack. The good thing is that you can do this by defining its DeletionPolicy.  This is pretty straightforward - you just need to define DeletionPolicy with Retain value and for the resources that support snapshot, (like RDS databases) you can set Snapshot as its value. With DeletionPolicy: [...]

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AWS CloudFormation StackSets and Nested Stacks

AWS CloudFormation lets you model and provision resources for your environment using programming language, leveraging the concept of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You don’t need to manually create all of your resources one by one, CloudFormation will do this for you. All resources are defined on the AWS CloudFormation template. This means that this AWS environment can be reliably and easily reproduced since everything is declared on a template. For example, creating a new [...]

  • Amazon Neptune Cheat Sheet

Amazon Neptune

Bookmarks How it Works Common Use Cases Performance Reliability Backup And Restore Security Pricing Monitoring Limitations Amazon Neptune Cheat Sheet Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service used for building applications that work with highly connected datasets. Optimized for storing billions of relationships between pieces of information. Provide milliseconds latency when querying the graph. Neptune supports graph query languages like [...]

  • Amazon S3 Access Points

Amazon S3 Access Points

Managing access to your S3 buckets should be pretty easy using Amazon S3’s bucket policy. But as the number of your users and data grows, this easily becomes a complicated task. Provisioning access policies (who and where to access these objects) to these users could be a messy thing to do. AWS added this feature called Access Points on S3 to resolve this current problem. Access Points can simplify things in terms of provisioning [...]

  • Amazon S3 Event Notifications

Amazon S3 Event Notifications

With Amazon S3 being virtually unlimited in size, it's quite a challenge to keep everything monitored, especially when you are dealing with a large number of objects that scales up from time to time. With Amazon S3 Event Notifications, you’ll be able to immediately know when an object in your bucket was created, removed, or restored. This feature lets you get notifications whenever an event happens on your S3 bucket. These notifications can then [...]

  • AWS Service Catalog Cheat Sheet

AWS Service Catalog

Bookmarks Features Concepts Security Pricing AWS Service Catalog Cheat Sheet Allows you to create, manage, and distribute catalogs of approved products to end-users, who can then access the products they need in a personalized portal.  Administrators can control which users have access to each product to enforce compliance with organizational business policies. Administrators can also set up adopted roles so that end users only require IAM access [...]

  • Configuring Notifications for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

Configuring Notifications for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks

Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks In the previous post, we talked about Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks and how to configure it on your Auto Scaling group. You can view the article here. It’s better to read it first before proceeding with this section. In a nutshell, Auto Scaling Lifecycle Hooks allow you to put an instance in the “wait” state while the Auto Scaling group responds to a scale-out or scale-in event. While the instance [...]

  • AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store

AWS Secrets Manager vs Systems Manager Parameter Store

Bookmarks AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store AWS Secrets Manager Similarities and Differences Managing the security of your applications is an integral part of any organization especially for infrastructures deployed in the cloud. One aspect of application security is how the parameters such as environment variables, database passwords, API keys, product keys, etc. are stored and retrieved. As a best practice, secret information should not be stored in plain [...]

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MID-YEAR SALE - 20% OFF on All Practice Test Courses PLUS Bigger Bundle Discounts! We hope you are staying safe in these challenging times.  For seven days only, Tutorials Dojo is running a MID-YEAR SALE where all of our AWS practice exams and eBooks are offered at heavily discounted prices.    Promo period is from July 1 7PM (UTC+8) to July 8 7PM (UTC+8). How are the courses from the Tutorials Dojo portal different from those on other learning platforms like Udemy? Aside from [...]

Step Scaling vs Simple Scaling Policies vs Target Tracking Policies in Amazon EC2

Bookmarks Simple Scaling  Target Tracking Step Scaling  Creating a Step Scaling Policy for an Auto Scaling Group Amazon’s EC2 Auto Scaling provides an effective way to ensure that your infrastructure is able to dynamically respond to changing user demands. For example, to accommodate a sudden traffic increase on your web application, you can set your Auto Scaling group to automatically add more instances. And when traffic is [...]

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