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`Cloud Engineer with his head in the AWS clouds, authored chapters in the PowerShell Conference Book 1 & 2 and currently learning and enjoying Go


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  1. What is serverless computing? An introduction to AWS Lambda

    The term serverless computing sounds very cool, but what does it actually mean? In this post, I will introduce AWS Lambda, Amazon’s serverless computing service. The three big cloud providers all have their own serverless infrastructure. Google has Google cloud functions, Azure has Azure functions, and AWS, which we will focus on, has AWS Lambda....…


  2. Go vs. PowerShell, Python, and JavaScript for DevOps

    In this article, I outline why I chose the Go programming language over PowerShell, Python, and JavaScript for my DevOps projects. In the current world of IT, DevOps engineers are in high demand. A skilled DevOps engineer requires skills in delivering applications and infrastructure rapidly into a production environment. Knowledge of a coding language is...…


  3. IAM Security Token Service (STS): Temporary security credentials in AWS

    We will be exploring the AWS Security Token Service (STS) to work with temporary security credentials. We will look at how they are set up and used, and then go through an example to put it all together. In short, STS enables flexibility that provides granular control of more than one AWS service for a...…


  4. Encrypt in AWS using the Key Management Service (KMS)

    The AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allows you to create and manage cryptographic keys that you can use across a wide range of services in Amazon’s cloud and your applications. We will walk through an example of encrypting your files in S3 by using KMS. How secure are KMS keys? AWS KMS is a fully...…


  5. AWS daily spend CloudWatch notification alert

    In this post we will look at the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) UI designs for CloudWatch and also schedule a daily billing check to give alerts on overspending. We have to use a Lambda function for this purpose because CloudWatch does not offer daily spending alerts. CloudWatch new UI AWS will shortly launch its...…