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Jun 22

S3 Static Website with CloudFront

Serving up an image with S3 and CloudFront… Amazon S3 is a storage service for objects and CloudFront is a content delivery network. Together, you can create a static website with low latency for optimal performance. We will do this using a photo, stored in an S3 bucket, and then…

Static Site

2 min read

Jun 21

Creating a Custom VPC

Provisioning a VPC to fit your needs… There are many ways to build your VPC, and my hope is that as you follow along you are able to better navigate the process to fit your needs. For our purposes today we will be creating a VPC that uses: 2 subnets…

Aws Vpc

8 min read

Jun 5

AWS 3-Tier Architecture

The 3 tier architecture consists of three computing teirs. Each of these tiers are able to operate simultaneously, be developed independently, & yet integrate holistically. It’s similar to dining out & having appetizers, a meal, & dessert. You can have any one of these independently, but together they make for…

Aws Architecture

10 min read

May 29

CI/CD CodePipeline via GitHub Repo

Automating the deployment of, and modifications to, an application is key to delivering the greatest possible user experience. It is crucial to find ways to update to latest versions as quickly and efficiently as possible. One way to do this is through a CodePipeline that uses a GitHub repository paired…

Aws Codebuild

4 min read

May 21

Autoscaling EC2’s in CloudFormation

CloudFormation is an AWS service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. It’s similar to ordering a gourmet sandwich. You basically have three options:

4 min read

May 17

EC2 with NGINX

In this project, we will create an AWS EC2 Instance with an NGINX Webserver! EC2’s are a great way to utilize virtual servers, and scale them according to your needs. You can use as many or as few as you need, and you can operate your server using the web-server…

3 min read

May 9

Amazon EC2 Autoscaling

Rather than supplying your own limited computing resources, consider EC2 and Autoscaling! Amazon’s EC2 service (Elastic Compute Cloud) was designed to help deploy applications through a virtual machine, represented by a physical server. This is incredibly helpful for growing organizations that have dynamic computing needs. So, instead of providing and…

Ec 2 Instance

4 min read

May 2

How to edit a Forked Repo from GitHub…

If you’d like to contribute to a repo on GitHub via forking, this is for you!

Github

4 min read

Apr 13

NGINX Web Server on CentOS 8

Organizations can access and test their webpage over their CentOS 8 server, using NGINX for their content storage and delivery needs. You can use this as a guide to install and run NGINX as well as set up firewall for security. 1. Connect to the server First, you will want to open a secure shell…

Nginx

3 min read