AWS

Home » AWS » Page 4

Cloud-9.8: Setting Up Web Caching Using Amazon ElastiCache for Your Amazon EC2-Hosted WordPress Website

2025-06-12T08:50:02+00:00

Hey, this is Step 8 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the seventh step! WordPress has proven itself as a powerful Content Management System (CMS) tool. However, as traffic increases, its performance can be compromised and slow down, especially when running on a single Amazon EC2 instance. In this article, I'll show you how to use Amazon ElastiCache to enable web caching and improve your website's performance. This step applies not just to those who are creating their website portfolio but to anyone who runs [...]

Cloud-9.8: Setting Up Web Caching Using Amazon ElastiCache for Your Amazon EC2-Hosted WordPress Website2025-06-12T08:50:02+00:00

Cloud-9.7: Your Guide to WordPress Plugins and Templates

2025-06-12T08:42:13+00:00

Hey, this is Step 7 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the sixth step! WordPress is a robust Content Management System (CMS) that anyone, regardless of technical skill, can simply use. Plugins and themes are two of this CMS tool's features; with a few clicks and tweaks, anyone may create their own website. These features enable you to manage and configure your website without having to write any code from scratch. In this article, we'll go over the capabilities of these two features, how they [...]

Cloud-9.7: Your Guide to WordPress Plugins and Templates2025-06-12T08:42:13+00:00

Build an AI Opponent for Discord Activities – Intro

2025-05-26T06:50:08+00:00

Have you ever wondered how NPCs and bots in games make decisions? How do they seem to "think" or play strategically—even when there's no human behind the scenes? In this blog series, we’ll take a deep dive into creating your own AI-powered opponent for a turn-based board game—specifically designed to run inside Discord Activities. Our goal is to create an opponent for turn-based board games that makes strategic decisions, learns from its experiences, and offers a compelling challenge for players on Discord. In this blog series, we'll learn how to: Design an AI opponent tailored for turn-based games Integrate your [...]

Build an AI Opponent for Discord Activities – Intro2025-05-26T06:50:08+00:00

AI-Powered Image Search Engine with Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide

2025-05-25T02:38:59+00:00

Because of the ubiquity and accessibility of digital cameras - and I'll bet you're holding one in your hand right now, baked into your mobile phone -  we as a generation take more pictures than ever before in the history of the human race. According to PhoTutorial, it is estimated that humanity nowadays takes 3.7 million photos per minute1. That translates to an impressive 162 billion images monthly2, if your mind has not been boggled enough.  The convenience of capturing digital images introduced a modern problem for us. We now have to wade through heaps and tons of images to [...]

AI-Powered Image Search Engine with Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Guide2025-05-25T02:38:59+00:00

Cloud-9.6: Getting Started with WordPress Dashboard

2025-06-12T08:40:50+00:00

Hey, this is Step 6 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the fifth step! WordPress is one of the most powerful and best-used platforms on the market for web construction and management. It's a content management system (CMS) that gives users everything they need to build, modify, and manage websites without necessarily requiring technical know-how. As much as WordPress has an abundance of features, one of WordPress's most prominent is the Dashboard—a user-friendly interface from which all of the functions of website management are managed [...]

Cloud-9.6: Getting Started with WordPress Dashboard2025-06-12T08:40:50+00:00

From Alert Fatigue to Intelligent Response: Using AWS Bedrock for Incident Management

2025-05-05T08:52:52+00:00

3 AM Again? Transform Your On-Call Experience with AWS Bedrock Incident Response It's 3 AM, your phone buzzes with another CloudWatch alert, and you're frantically trying to understand what went wrong with limited context. Sound familiar? Usually, cloud operations teams face this overwhelming challenge daily: alerts that lack context, information scattered across multiple systems, and the constant pressure to resolve incidents quickly. Fortunately, AWS Bedrock incident response capabilities now offer a revolutionary solution to this common problem. Why Traditional Incident Response Methods No Longer Work In today's increasingly complex cloud environments, traditional approaches to incident response clearly show their limitations: [...]

From Alert Fatigue to Intelligent Response: Using AWS Bedrock for Incident Management2025-05-05T08:52:52+00:00

Upscaling Amazon EC2 Instance Performance: A Comprehensive Guide to Vertical Scaling for Improved Application Availability

2025-05-08T14:26:47+00:00

It’s a scenario that no website owner wants to face: your website, which has been running smoothly for months, suddenly goes down. Panic sets in as users can’t access your services, and business slows down drastically. In my case, the traffic to my website spiked unexpectedly, and my EC2 instance could no longer handle the load. I realized that the only solution to get my site back up and running was to scale my EC2 instance vertically – but what does that even mean, and how do you do it? In this article, I will share how I tackled the [...]

Upscaling Amazon EC2 Instance Performance: A Comprehensive Guide to Vertical Scaling for Improved Application Availability2025-05-08T14:26:47+00:00

Amazon Q Developer Agent: Code, Review, and Deploy Apps with AI Agents

2025-05-03T20:00:12+00:00

Have you ever wondered if Amazon offers a way to seamlessly integrate AI into your development process, especially when using Visual Studio Code (VSCode)? Imagine having an intelligent assistant right in your IDE that can help you code, review, and deploy applications while guiding you through best practices and even suggesting optimizations. Well, Amazon has answered that with the Amazon Q Developer Agent! What is Amazon Q? Amazon Q is a powerful suite of AI-powered tools and services that help developers with various stages of application development, from coding to deployment. Designed to integrate easily with development environments like VSCode, [...]

Amazon Q Developer Agent: Code, Review, and Deploy Apps with AI Agents2025-05-03T20:00:12+00:00

What Is ReAct? – Leveraging AI’s Decision-Making Process

2025-05-01T14:04:56+00:00

Hi! Been introduced to AI agents already? Amazing! If not, no stress—start your journey here 👉 What Are AI Agents? We discussed how AI agents aren’t just passive tools; they think, decide, and act to accomplish goals with minimal human input. They’re changing the way we work, learn, and even rest. But behind this breakthrough in autonomy lies a more technical foundation—one that’s easy to overlook but worth understanding. Before AI agents could reason on their own or act on our behalf, they had to be taught how to think and do and, more importantly, combine both in a meaningful, [...]

What Is ReAct? – Leveraging AI’s Decision-Making Process2025-05-01T14:04:56+00:00

Cloud-9.5: Troubleshooting Common WordPress Website Issues

2025-06-12T08:35:32+00:00

Hey, this is Step 5 of our 9-step website portfolio building with AWS! Got lost? Click here to go to the main article, and here for the fourth step!   When working on a project, there is no avoidance of bugs, which sometimes is frustrating, especially when getting stuck over a recurrent issue. This article discusses common mistakes and bugs, the strategies that can be effectively used to troubleshoot them, and tips on how to solve them more efficiently and confidently.   1. Common Mistake: Keeping the Default 8GB Storage Size for Your Amazon EC2 Instance When launching an Amazon [...]

Cloud-9.5: Troubleshooting Common WordPress Website Issues2025-06-12T08:35:32+00:00

AWS, Azure, and GCP Certifications are consistently among the top-paying IT certifications in the world, considering that most companies have now shifted to the cloud. Upskill and earn over $150,000 per year with an AWS, Azure, or GCP certification!

Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, or join our Slack study group. More importantly, answer as many practice exams as you can to help increase your chances of passing your certification exams on your first try!