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AWS Well-Architected Tool

2024-03-23T07:02:34+00:00

Bookmarks Key Components Using the Tool Best Practices  Benefits Reference AWS Well-Architected Tool Cheat Sheet The AWS Well-Architected Tool is a service that helps you review your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices. The tool provides recommendations for making your workloads more reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective. Key Components Workload is a term used to describe a collection of components that collectively contribute to business value. This could range from marketing websites, e-commerce platforms, and backend for mobile applications to analytic platforms. The complexity of a workload [...]

AWS Well-Architected Tool2024-03-23T07:02:34+00:00

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework – AWS CAF

2025-11-11T16:16:52+00:00

Bookmarks What is the Cloud Adoption Framework? The Perspectives of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework Capabilities of AWS CAF AWS CAF Use Cases Benefits of Using AWS CAF What is the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework? The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, or AWS CAF for short, is simply a framework provided by AWS to assist you in adopting cloud computing for your enterprise infrastructure. It is a framework that contains various perspectives that are based on years of extensive experience and best practices in AWS. This can help you [...]

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework – AWS CAF2025-11-11T16:16:52+00:00

AWS IoT Core

2023-06-23T08:24:42+00:00

AWS IoT (Internet of Things) Core It is a managed cloud service that connects IoT devices to other devices and AWS cloud services easily. It can support billions of devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services without managing an infrastructure securely and reliably.             It offers connectivity between devices and the AWS cloud, continuous processing of data sent from connected devices and application interaction with connected devices. It supports the following protocol to help you manage and support your IoT devices MQTT (Message Queuing and Telemetry Transport) MQTT over WSS (WebSockets Secure) HTTPS [...]

AWS IoT Core2023-06-23T08:24:42+00:00

Increase Your Chances of Passing Your AWS, Azure, and GCP Exam with these Review Strategies

2023-04-16T10:09:53+00:00

Have you ever considered obtaining a cloud certification but are unsure of the first steps or where to begin? Let me help you increase your chances of passing your AWS, Azure, and GCP exams with these review strategies. Embarking on a new journey can be daunting, especially when starting out. However, in this article, I will discuss how I started my path toward obtaining cloud certifications by sharing my studying and reviewing strategies. To begin, let me introduce myself. My name is Amiel, and I work as a Cloud and DevOps Engineer. I have been fortunate enough to earn six [...]

Increase Your Chances of Passing Your AWS, Azure, and GCP Exam with these Review Strategies2023-04-16T10:09:53+00:00

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager

2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

AWS Systems Manager’s Fleet Manager is a useful tool for managing Amazon EC2 instances on your account. It allows you to establish a private session to your instances, view detailed information about the instance, run automation such as patch installations, or execute specific Run commands to the instance’s operating system. It can also be used to manage on-premises servers or virtual machines. Using AWS Systems Manager tools requires that an IAM role is created and attached as an instance profile to your EC2 instances. It also requires that the Systems Manager Agent is installed on the instances. The Systems Manager [...]

Default Host Management Configuration on AWS Systems Manager2023-04-10T03:01:04+00:00

AWS Amplify

2025-11-27T08:21:28+00:00

AWS Amplify Cheat Sheet AWS Amplify is a platform that simplifies building and deploying full-stack applications with pre-built UI components, hosting options, and easy integration with AWS services. It's flexible and scalable, making it easy to add new features and adapt to changing requirements. Amplify Services AWS Amplify offers two main services: Amplify Hosting and Amplify Studio      Amplify Hosting a fully managed CI/CD and hosting service for single-page applications (SPA), using AWS S3 and AWS CloudFront to deliver content to users around the world. Amplify takes care of managing servers, scaling the infrastructure, or configuring DNS settings for [...]

AWS Amplify2025-11-27T08:21:28+00:00

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

2023-06-22T14:02:45+00:00

AWS Cloud Development Kit Cheat Sheet The AWS CDK is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. It provides a high-level object-oriented abstraction on top of AWS CloudFormation that allows you to use pre-built cloud components called constructs. It uses familiar programming languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, .Net, Java, and Go and deploys everything as CloudFormation stacks.  Concepts: Stacks  a deployment of AWS resources defined in your CDK app. Each stack is a CloudFormation stack and can contain multiple AWS resources.  Constructs:  pre-built cloud components that can be [...]

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)2023-06-22T14:02:45+00:00

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)

2024-07-16T06:38:12+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Security Monitoring Pricing Amazon MSK Cheat Sheet A service that uses fully managed Apache Kafka to ingest and process streaming data in real-time. Concepts Configuration If you do not specify a custom MSK configuration, a default configuration will be assigned to a cluster. You can use the custom configuration to new or existing MSK clusters. MSK configurations allow you to specify the properties to be set as well as the values to be assigned to them. MSK Serverless A cluster type that enables you to run Apache Kafka without the need [...]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)2024-07-16T06:38:12+00:00

AWS CloudHSM

2025-11-30T15:20:24+00:00

Bookmarks Use Case Concepts Monitoring Pricing AWS CloudHSM Cheat Sheet A cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to easily generate and use your own encryption keys on the AWS Cloud. It allows you to provision and manage single-tenant, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSM instances in your own VPC. Single-Tenant Access: You have dedicated access to the HSM hardware; it is not shared with other customers. Control: You manage the HSMs, users, and keys. AWS manages the hardware provisioning, backups, and network connectivity. FIPS Compliance: Validated to FIPS 140-2 Level 3 [...]

AWS CloudHSM2025-11-30T15:20:24+00:00

AWS Backup

2023-06-23T06:06:24+00:00

Bookmarks Concepts Monitoring Pricing AWS Backup Cheat Sheet A service that enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. Concepts Backup plan A policy expression that determines when and how you want your AWS resources backed up. Stores periodic backups incrementally. A backup plan can be created using the AWS Backup console, API, CLI, SDK, or an AWS CloudFormation template. Backup plans can be assigned the following: Resource type - every instance or resource. Resource - a single instance of a resource type. Supports multiple backup plans for [...]

AWS Backup2023-06-23T06:06:24+00:00

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