Projects on Barnaby Baron. Exploring AWS.

Building a Highly Available Infrastucture using Terraform

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a Highly Available Infrastucture using Terraform!

This project practices Automation and Reliability.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence, Security, and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Deploying Super Mario on AWS EKS using Terraform!

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Deploying Super Mario on AWS EKS using Terraform!

This week, I successfully deployed a working retro game on AWS!

I have been wanting to build something like this for a while now, so I found this quite an exciting build, and what could be better than deploying a retro game that I used to play on my Gameboy back when I was a kid!

Building an EKS cluster and mounting an S3 bucket within a pod using the CSI Driver

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an EKS cluster and mounting an S3 bucket within a pod using the CSI Driver!

This week, I used CloudFormation to build out an EKS Cluster and then mount an S3 bucket into a pod using the Container Storage Interface (CSI).

Building a VPC and provisioning an EC2 instance using Modules!

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC and provisioning an EC2 instance using Modules!

This week, I used Terraform to create a simple VPC with a single EC2 instance provisioned inside it using Modules.

Building a VPC and Migrating the Backend Terraform State to an S3 bucket!

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC and Migrating the Backend Terraform State to an S3 bucket!!

This week, I used Terraform to create a VPC with a single EC2 instance and then promoted the instance to a Domain Controller. Once this was created, I migrated the local backend Terraform state file to an S3 bucket.

Building a VPC and promoting an EC2 instance to a Domain Controller using Terraform!

Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC and promoting an EC2 instance to a Domain Controller using Terraform!!

This week, I used Terraform to create a VPC with a single EC2 instance and then promoted the instance to a Domain Controller.

Building Lambda Functions and Rotating Secrets using Terraform!

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building Lambda Functions and Rotating Secrets using Terraform!

This week, I used Terraform to create a Lambda Function and store values in Secrets Manager!

Building an EC2 instance, configured with Remote State Files in Terraform!

Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an EC2 instance, configured with Remote State Files in Terraform!!

This week, I configured remote state files in Terraform and built an EC2 instance using Infrastructure as Code!

Building and configuring EC2 with Terraform and Ansible!

Sat, 05 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building and configuring EC2 with Terraform and Ansible!!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Security, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an image processing pipeline using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Rekognition!

Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an image processing pipeline using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Rekognition!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Security, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an automated data transfer architecture using S3 and Lambda!

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an automated data transfer architecture using S3 and Lambda!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Security, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an event-driven architecture using DynamoDB and EventBridge!

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an event-driven architecture using DynamoDB and EventBridge!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Performance Efficiency, Reliability, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an API Gateway and uploading files to S3 via Postman

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an API Gateway and uploading files to S3 via Postman!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building a Secure API Gateway using Amazon Cognito via Terraform!

Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a Secure API Gateway using Amazon Cognito via Terraform!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence, Security, and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building a Secure API Gateway using Amazon Cognito!

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a Secure API Gateway using Amazon Cognito!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Security and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building a VPC Interface Endpoint and connecting to SQS over PrivateLink!

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC Interface Endpoint and connecting to SQS over PrivateLink!

This project practices Automation.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Cost Optimisation, Operational Excellence, Security, Performance Efficiency, and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building an application on AWS EKS with Fargate using CloudFormation!

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an application on AWS EKS with Fargate using CloudFormation!

This project practices Availability and Scalability… and perseverance!

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence, Security, Performance Efficiency, and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building a VPC with a Load Balancer and EC2 Instances using Terraform!

Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC with a Load Balancer and EC2 Instances using Terraform!

This project practices Automation and Reliability.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence, Security, and Reliability will be achieved in this build.

Building a VPC Transit Gateway between VPCs using Terraform!

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a VPC Transit Gateway between VPCs using Terraform!

This project practices Automation.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence will be achieved in this build.

Building a message handling service with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda!

Wed, 29 May 2024 10:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a message handling service with Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda!

This project practices Scalability.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building a Data Lake, ingesting and analysing data!

Tue, 21 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a Data Lake, ingesting and analysing data!

This project is about Scalability in data analysis.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Performance Efficiency and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an automated serverless facial analysis system.

Thu, 16 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an automated serverless facial analysis system.

This project is about Performance, Availability, and receiving real-time notifications when new analysis is performed.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Performance Efficiency and Sustainability will be achieved in this build.

Building an automated Serverless new resource discovery notification

Thu, 09 May 2024 15:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building an automated Serverless new resources discovery notification.

This project is about observability, and receiving real-time notifications when new resources are provisioned in an AWS Account.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Security and Cost Optimisation will be achieved in this build.

Building a Lambda function to process a CSV when uploaded to an S3 bucket

Thu, 02 May 2024 16:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a Lambda function to process a CSV when uploaded to an S3 bucket.

This project is about serverless automation.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Performance Efficiency will be achieved in this build.

Building a serverless automated Cost Visibility report

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:30:26 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Building a serverless automated Cost Visibility report

I recently shared an article relating to cost visibility on LinkedIn Here

This project is all about observability, and understanding what is happening in the account.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Cost Optimisation will be achieved in this build.

Building a VPC and installing a Network Firewall

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:12:26 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Build a VPC using IaC via Terraform and install a Network Firewall!

Following on from the project build where I created a VPC, in this article we provision the VPC again and then build out a Network Firewall.

Within the VPC, there are Public and Private subnets, an Internet Gateway, a security group, custom route tables, and a NAT Gateway.

Using the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence will be achieved by using Terraform to deliver an Infrastructure as Code pipeline.

Building a serverless web application on AWS

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:00:26 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Building on AWS 💡

I built a web app on AWS to showcase a serverless web application architecture.

Let’s see how it is put together!

Building a VPC using IaC with Terraform

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:12:26 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Task: Build a VPC using IaC via Terraform.

In this article, we build a VPC!

Within this VPC, there are Public and Private subnets, an Internet Gateway, a security group, custom route tables, and a NAT Gateway.

Within the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence will be achieved by using Terraform to deliver an Infrastructure as Code pipeline.

I also plan on doing a similar project using CloudFormation.

Building an Amazon ECS resource with Fargate using Terraform

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 10:12:26 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Another project build! It won’t always be as regular as this but I have momentum currently!

In this article, we build a VPC and create an Amazon ECS using Fargate. Within the 6 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, Operational Excellence will be achieved by using Terraform to deliver an Infrastructure as Code pipeline.

Building a static website using Terraform and AWS

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:15:26 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

Over the past few days, I have delved into another project build.

This one introduces using Infrastructure as Code to create a website using Terraform on AWS.

Building a blog using AWS infrastructure

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:15:26 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Building on AWS

When I decided to create an AWS Community Builder blog, the only thing I knew I wanted to achieve at first was to host it on AWS.