Barnaby Baron. Exploring AWS.

AWS Direct Connect announces flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS improves regional resiliency for root user sign-in

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Year 3 Builders Merch Delivery!

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 3 Merch 💡

Year 3 Builders Merch Delivery!

Swag Alert!!

The AWS merch game has leveled up yet again!

AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon SES introduces pricing plans

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Security Hub now offers Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Year 3 - AWS Community Builder

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 3 💡

Year 3 - AWS Community Builder!

It still seems like yesterday that I was selected to become an AWS Community Builder.

It was actually at the beginning of 2024 when I submitted my application to join the prestigious program.

Amazon CloudWatch introduces Log Analytics for unified log analysis

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Management Console Private Access now ensures all console traffic flows through VPC endpoints

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Announcing the public preview of AWS FinOps Agent

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Introducing AI-Powered Cost Investigations For Cost Anomalies

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget

Fri, 29 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deployments

Sat, 23 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview

Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)

Sun, 17 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.

Tue, 12 May 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Certificate Manager now supports native certificate search

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Secrets Manager console now supports custom input for AWS KMS keys

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon CloudFront now supports SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Lambda supports up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs for Lambda Managed Instances

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports granular IAM permissions for resource and VPC associations

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 introduces account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with GitHub and Amazon

Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines

Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar for easier account identification

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS introduces additional policy details to access denied error messages

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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Enhanced Transactions view now available in AWS Billing Console

Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Community Builders Application Window Open!

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Application Window 💡

AWS Community Builders Application Window Open!

📯 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

The annual AWS Community Builders 2026 application window is now open to all!

Amazon MQ now supports certificate based authentication with mutual TLS for RabbitMQ brokers

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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EC2 Capacity Manager now includes Spot interruption metrics

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS reduces publishing time for Carbon Footprint Data to 21 days or Less

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Introducing AWS AI Factories

Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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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.

Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage class

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Cost Optimization Hub introduces Cost Efficiency metric to measure and track cloud cost efficiency

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Control Tower supports automatic enrollment of accounts

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 adds conditional write functionality to copy operations

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance

Sat, 01 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon CloudWatch introduces interactive incident reporting

Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Secret-West Region is now available

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS announces Nitro Enclaves are now available in all AWS Regions

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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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!

Amazon DynamoDB now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Automatic quota management is now generally available for AWS Service Quotas

Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Introduces self-service invoice correction feature

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Year 2 Builders Merch Delivery!

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 2 Merch 💡

Year 2 Builders Merch Delivery!

Swag Alert!!

AWS have done it again — the merch game just keeps getting better!

AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Google

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Featured in Company Learning Initiative!

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Career Pathway 💡

Featured in Company Learning Initiative!

Something a little different!

Recently, at my workplace, I was invited by the company CTO to do a presentation to a few hundred people at my workplace on the topic of Rally Driving, or more specifically, Rally Navigating.

My aim was to keep it fun and as entertaining as possible.

You can now preview Amazon S3 Tables in the S3 console

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS announces EC2 instance attestation

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Organizations supports full IAM policy language for service control policies (SCPs).

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Budgets now supports custom time periods

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets.

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

ECS Exec is now available in the AWS Management Console.

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS IAM launches new VPC endpoint condition keys for network perimeter controls

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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AWS Security Incident Response introduces integrations with ITSM

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon EKS adds safety control to prevent accidental cluster deletion

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon DynamoDB adds support for Console-to-Code

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon EC2 now supports force terminate for EC2 instances

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Lambda response streaming now supports 200 MB response payloads

Sat, 02 Aug 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon CloudWatch adds IPv6 support

Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Simplify AWS Organization Tag Policies using new wildcard statement

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Private CA now supports issuing up to 100 million certificates per CA

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon EBS now provides visibility into EBS volume initialization status

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon S3 console now displays an external access summary for all your buckets

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Announcing AWS Builder Center

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Oracle Database@AWS announces general availability, expands networking capabilities

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon CloudFront announces support for HTTPS DNS records

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon VPC raises default Route Table capacity

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS IAM now enforces MFA for root users across all account types

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS launches public preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS)

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Designing a Formula 1 Race Track and gaining insights from Amazon Nova

Fri, 16 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Building on AWS 💡

Task: Designing a Formula 1 Race Track and gaining insights from Amazon Nova!

Not so much of a project, as technically I didn’t ‘build’ anything, however, I have had loads of fun designing a Formula 1 race track and then gained lightning-fast insights of my build from Amazon Nova!

Is your seat belt on?!

Year 2 - AWS Community Builder

Thu, 15 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 2 💡

Year 2 - AWS Community Builder!

It seems like yesterday that I was selected to become an AWS Community Builder.

It was actually at the beginning of 2024 when I submitted my application to join the prestigious program.

Amazon ECS introduces 1-click rollbacks for service deployments

Mon, 12 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Systems Manager launches just-in-time node access

Fri, 09 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Automated HTTP validated public certificates with Amazon CloudFront

Wed, 07 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Announcing SaaS Manager for Amazon CloudFront

Mon, 05 May 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon Cognito now supports refresh token rotation

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Transfer Family introduces Terraform module for deploying SFTP server endpoints

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS now allows customers in Europe to pay For their usage in advance

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS simplifies Amazon VPC Peering billing

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Load Balancer Capacity Unit Reservation for Gateway Load Balancers

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

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Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Client VPN increases authorization rules and route quotas

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow introduces a new visual editor to improve DNS policy editing

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Application Load Balancer announces integration with Amazon VPC IPAM

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Announcing AWS Step Functions Workflow Studio for the VS Code IDE

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

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

IAM Access Analyzer now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP no longer charges for SnapLock licensing

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

AWS Secrets Manager increases the API Requests per Second limits

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0100

What’s new! - Diving into AWS publications!

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

AWS announces Backup Payment Methods for invoices.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Network Load Balancer now supports removing availability zones.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB now supports auto-approval of quota adjustments.

Troubleshooting an EKS Pod creation error - Persistent Volume Controller Failed Binding

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting an EKS Pod creation error - Persistent Volume Controller Failed Binding!

While working on a project using CloudFormation to build out an EKS Cluster and then mount an S3 bucket into a pod using the Container Storage Interface, I hit a problem as my pod came online and thought I would document the fix here.

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).

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon EC2 now supports automated recovery of Microsoft SQL Server with VSS.

Sopra Steria Merch Delivery!

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Employment 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Sopra Steria Merch Delivery! 💡

🔔 Swag alert! 🔔

I got a knock at the door this week, and it was a delivery for Mr Baron! A rectangular box the size of a DVD case. I wasn’t expecting a delivery so I had a look for any postmarks but didn’t find anything that gave it away.

What could it be?

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

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

AWS CodePipeline introduces new debugging experience in AWS Management Console.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

The AWS Management Console now supports simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Compute Optimizer now expands idle and rightsizing recommendations for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB now supports configurable point-in-time-recovery periods.

AWS Community Builders Application Window!

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Community Builders Application Window! 💡

🔔 Application date window alert! 🔔

It doesn’t seem like a year ago when I was planning my first draft for submission to become an AWS Community Builder, and I still recall nervously clicking the button to submit my final application.

I also still recall waking up to receive an email confirming I had been selected to join the program. 🚀

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:00:00 +0100

Announcing Node Health Monitoring and Auto-Repair for Amazon EKS.

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.

Getting ahead

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0000

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Backup launches support for search and item-level recovery.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Sat, 07 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Announcing Amazon S3 Metadata.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS announces access to VPC resources over AWS PrivateLink.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Announcing Amazon Elastic VMware Service.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon Web Services announces declarative policies.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS announces AWS Security Incident Response for general availability.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Sun, 01 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Find security, compliance, and operating metrics in AWS Resource Explorer.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB reduces prices for on-demand throughput and global tables.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon CloudFront no longer charges for requests blocked by AWS WAF.

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!

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud launches new security group sharing features.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon Connect now offers screen sharing.

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!

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops between Lambda and Amazon S3.

Troubleshooting a SSH connection failing on Windows OS

Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting a SSH connection failing on Windows OS

While working on a build utilising both Terraform and Ansible, linked here, I found I was unable to establish my SSH session within my VSCode platform. The following steps are how I solved the issue.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS CloudTrail launches network activity events for VPC endpoints.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon EC2 Instance Connect now supports IPv6.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon SES now offers automated complaint rate recommendations.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS PrivateLink.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Resource Access Manager now supports AWS PrivateLink.

SSCL Week One Merch Delivery!

Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Employment 📊

Subject matter: 💡 SSCL Week One Merch Delivery! 💡

🔔 Swag alert! 🔔

Week one of working at SSCL has flown by with inductions and mandatory training aplenty! I have been made to feel very welcome and have had some excellent conversations.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports configurable TCP idle timeout.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB announces support for Attribute-Based Access Control.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 04 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Glue now provides job queuing.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports AWS PrivateLink.

Last day at DXC!

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Employment 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Last day at DXC 💡

My final day at DXC today, an odd feeling signing off after 15 years there.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 30 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Announcing Validation API for AWS Step Functions.

Moving on from DXC!

Mon, 26 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Employment 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Moving on from DXC 💡

🚀 After 1️⃣5️⃣ years working at DXC, I have made the decision to move on! 🚀

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.

Beta Testing AWS Skill Builder - SimuLearn

Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Subject matter: 💡 Beta Testing AWS Skill Builder - SimuLearn 💡

In recent months, I was approached by AWS and asked if I was interested in Beta testing some of their new Training and Certification platform labs.

This was unrelated to both my day job and my AWS Community Builder role and was bound (at the time) by a separate confidentiality agreement. This essentially meant, not discussing it publically until it went Live.

Enjoying some downtime

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Downtime 💡

It was nice to get back into some cloud building this week, and for once everything I built worked first time, which was nice!! 🤩

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Announcing delegated administrator for Cost Optimization Hub.

Troubleshooting a Terraform Apply failing due to a CloudWatch Logs role ARN must be set error

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting a Terraform Apply failing due to a CloudWatch Logs role ARN must be set error

While working on a build to deploy a REST API using API Gateway linked here, the Terraform apply failed mid-way through. The code base for this project is probably the largest I have worked with so far, with hundreds of lines of config to work through.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in backup policies.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Partner Central now supports multi-factor authentication.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon CloudFront announces managed cache policies for web applications.

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Tue, 02 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS Application Migration Service supports Dynatrace post-launch action.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

AWS CloudShell now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon DocumentDB announces IAM database authentication.

Troubleshooting a CloudFormation stack failing due to a Property validation failure

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting a CloudFormation stack failing due to a Property validation failure

While working on an EKS with Fargate Game Build project linked here, at one point I was having problems with the design and execution of the build, so I switched tactics and attempted the same build using Cloud9. During the deployment of the Cloud9 infrastructure, I ran into an issue and thought I would share it.

Troubleshooting a json pull request in Windows

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting a json pull request in Windows

While working on an EKS with Fargate Game Build project linked here I ran into a problem that needed troubleshooting and thought I would share it.

Troubleshooting an eksctl 'no cluster found' region mismatch

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Task: Troubleshooting an eksctl “no cluster found” region mismatch

While working on this project I ran into a problem that needed troubleshooting and thought I would share it.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0100

Amazon SES now publishes email sending events to EventBridge.

Documentation is a key driver to successful projects

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Thought Leadership 💡

After spending 15 years working in enterprise-level IT environments, I have found one of the most important drivers to longevity and customer success in an area you might not expect…

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0100

Amazon Data Firehose now supports integration with AWS Secrets Manager.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Mon, 10 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0100

Centrally manage member account root email addresses across your AWS Organization.

Troubleshooting a failing VPC Transit Gateway Terraform Apply sequence

Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

When I was working on a recent VPC Transit Gateway build using Terraform, I ran into a problem that needed troubleshooting and thought I would share it.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 09:00:00 +0100

Amazon API Gateway integration timeout limit increase beyond 29 seconds.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Fri, 31 May 2024 09:00:00 +0100

AWS AppSync now supports long running events with asynchronous Lambda function invocations.

Aviatrix Certified Engineer

Fri, 31 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Learning and Development 💡

⚜ I am happy to confirm that I have passed the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Multicloud Network Associate certification! ⚜

Check out my new badge on Credly

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Fri, 31 May 2024 07:00:00 +0100

Amazon QuickSight launches multi column sorting for Tables.

Exploring Netflix's Architecture

Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:00 +0100

I don’t post many videos, but this new one from iLyas exploring Netflix’s Architecture is really interesting!

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.

What's new! - Diving into AWS publications

Wed, 29 May 2024 08:00:00 +0100

Amazon CloudWatch now offers 30 days of alarm history.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Thu, 23 May 2024 09:00:00 +0100

AWS announces new edge location in Egypt.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Mon, 20 May 2024 09:00:00 +0100

AWS Control Tower improves control operations at scale.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Tue, 14 May 2024 09:00:00 +0100

Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

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

AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls.

AWS North East User Group Meetup - Databases!

Wed, 08 May 2024 23:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 User Group Meetup 💡

It has been a busy day!

Having joined the AWS Office Hours meeting this afternoon, hosted by AWS Developer Relations Community Manager Thembile Ndlovu to catch up on news and experiences from AWS staff, fellow AWS Community Builders, and User Group leaders, I have just returned home from my second attendance at the AWS North East User Group meetup.

Year 1 Builders Merch Delivery!

Fri, 03 May 2024 16:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Year 1 Merch 💡

When I was selected to be a member of the AWS Community Builders program, I didn’t realise quite how excited I would get about one particular thing…

Swag. That is… AWS swag.

As an IT company, they really know how to do merch.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Thu, 02 May 2024 09:00:00 +0100

AMIs can now be protected against accidental deregistration.

Learning about other cloud vendors - OCI

Wed, 01 May 2024 16:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Learning and Development 💡

💠 I am an AWS Community Builder, which to me means many things, but overall it drives me to build and be curious about computing. This means adventuring into technology, pressing buttons, getting stuck in, and also a lot of the time, getting… stuck.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:15:14 +0000

AWS supports dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address.

Did you know? - Well Architected Framework

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Solutions Architect 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Well Architected Framework 💡

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 07:15:14 +0000

AWS KMS announces more flexible automatic key rotation.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:15:14 +0000

CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins.

Observability

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:01:14 +0000

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.

Troubleshooting a Network Firewall removal with Delete Protection Enabled

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:45:14 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

Following on from the last project I completed, which was building a VPC and installing a Network Firewall, I needed to conduct various troubleshooting.

One thing caught me out during the teardown though… deleting a Network Firewall.

Read on for more…

AWS North East User Group Meetup - Serverless!

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 User Group Meetup 💡

I just returned from my first attendance at the AWS North East User Group meetup.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:15:14 +0000

Amazon Cognito can now secure access to APIs using Amazon Verified Permissions.

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!

You don't know it, thats ok!

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:45:14 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Learning and Development 💡

Sahil recently wrote a post on LinkedIn Here, which resonated with me. So much so I then wrote about it Here.

I can relate to this a lot at the moment 💭

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:15:14 +0000

CloudWatch Internet Monitor can be launched from the CloudFront Console.

This can be customised to your requirements at any time!

Did you know? - Six Pillars

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Solutions Architect 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Well Architected Framework 💡

Troubleshooting a Terraform VPC build conflict

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 14:45:14 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

I have probably completed well over 100 Cloud Quest labs, which has given me a large amount of hands-on experience with many of the products and services AWS offers.

However, one thing that I never had to do was set up the environment from scratch.

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.

Troubleshooting AWS Amplify app build failing

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:05:14 +0000

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Troubleshooting 💡

When I built this blog, I ran into numerous issues that I needed to troubleshoot. All of these issues were due to my lack of understanding of how the architecture worked.

I had one issue that took me a while to figure out which I will document here.

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.

Learning Pathway

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:05:14 +0000

Journey: 📊 All of them 📊

Subject matter: 💡 Learning Pathway 💡

The sheer wealth of amazing articles, blog posts, stories, press releases, project builds, and advice from top talent is…

Finding saved posts on LinkedIn

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 12:10:14 +0000

💡 Finding your Saved posts on LinkedIn… 💡

I try not to save posts for later, but life is busy and I can’t read everything at the time I spot it so I save some posts to return to.

Only when I return, I can’t find them.

Journey

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:01:14 +0000

The journey matters as much as the goal.

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:15:14 +0000

Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account anomaly detection.

Did you know? - Six Pillars

Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Solutions Architect 📊

Subject matter: Six Pillars

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.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:15:14 +0100

Private Access to the AWS Management Console is now available.

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB Import from S3 now supports up to 50,000 Amazon S3 objects in a single bulk import.

Learning and Development

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:15:14 +0100

Journey: 📊 Community Builder 📊

Subject matter: Content creation

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:15:14 +0100

AWS Global Accelerator supports assigning a public IPv4 address from a CIDR block to an accelerator resource in another account.

Start learning

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:43:26 +0100

Want to start learning about the cloud but not sure where to start?

Journey: 📊 Cloud Practitioner 📊

Subject matter: Cloud Essentials

💡 Start here: 💡 https://skillbuilder.aws/getstarted

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

AWS Batch now offers multi-container jobs via AWS Management Console

Creativity

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:01:14 +0100

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Cloud Computing Trends

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:00:40 +0100

A nice video here from Tech with Lucy on the current cloud computing trends.

Did you know? - Six Pillars

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Solutions Architect 📊

Subject matter: Six Pillars

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Amazon DynamoDB now supports resource-based policies

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:05:27 +0100

My LinkedIn profile.

Key shifts and Growth

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:23:40 +0100

Good insights from Ilyas into evolving as a solutions architect.

Did you know? - S3

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Cloud Practitioner 📊

Subject matter: S3

Thomas Edison on Growth

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:01:14 +0100

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Did you know? - S3

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

Did you know? – Unleashing AWS Facts

Journey: 📊 Cloud Practitioner 📊

Subject matter: S3

Whats new? Delving into AWS publications

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:15:14 +0100

AWS CloudFormation now 40% faster stack creations!

Blog Credit

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:15:14 +0100

I had never worked with Hugo or Go before so this was all very new.

I must give a huge thank you to the following people for their help in creating this blog site.

Blog release

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:45:44 +0200

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new blog!

This site is going to be a fun space for:

Sharing my thoughts on emerging technology
Linking to interesting news from AWS releases
Quotes to provoke inspiration
Videos I have enjoyed from content creators I follow

Plus… it is going to be running on AWS using Github and AWS Amplify!!