Cloud Computing with AWS

S3 Bucket Hosting a Static Website

Learn how to set up an s3 bucket and use it to host static assets and a website. You could use this...

Setting Up And Deploying AWS EC2 Instances

EC2 or elastic compute cloud is part of amazon's infrastructure as a service for us to rent virtual...

Deploy Node app on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2

Deploy Node app on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 by installing node js and setting the app up as a systemd...

MySQL on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2

Install and set up a MySQL database on an Amazon Linux 2 ec2 instance.

Nginx Reverse Proxy on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2

Install and set up an nginx reverse proxy on an Amazon Linux 2 ec2 instance.

HTTPS on Amazon Linux with Nginx

Learn how to setup an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance with nginx to accept HTTPS requests. https://docs...

Intro to IAM Roles and Policies on AWS

Learn about what IAM roles and policies are and how to create policies and roles to grant an ec2 instance...

Sending logs to CloudWatch from Amazon Linux 2

Learn how to send logs from an Amazon Linux 2 EC2 instance to cloud watch.

Intro to Horizontal Scaling, Load Balancing, Immutable Infrastructure with AWS

Load balancing and horizontally scaling a web app using immutable infrastructure on AWS with custom...

Intro to RDS in AWS for MySQL

Learn how to set up RDS with MySQL and connect to the database from a MySQL client over the internet...

AWS Auto Scaling Groups and Load Balancers

Learn how to use Auto Scaling Groups and Application Load Balancers in AWS.

AWS Route 53 Domain Name

Setup a custom domain name in route 53 to start creating dns records for services within aws. I'll show...

AWS VPC & Subnets For Beginners

Learn how to set up a custom VPC with public and private subnets.

Setup a NAT Gateway on AWS

Learn what a NAT gateway is and how to set one up on AWS to allow internet access on a private subnet...

VPC Gateway Endpoints for Private S3 Bucket Connections

How to set up a VPC endpoint to allow private connections to s3 buckets from private subnets.

aws cli

Learn how to setup the aws cli on your computer and configure it to manage your cloud infrastructure...

AWS CLI | Setup an S3 Static Website

Let’s take a look at how to deploy a website to an S3 bucket using the aws cli.

AWS CLI | VPC, Subnets, EC2, and more

Let’s take a look at how to use the aws cli to create a VPC, Subnets, EC2 instances, and more.

Intro to Packer with AWS

Learn the basics of using packer to create AMIs in AWS by setting up an AMI that runs a basic node web...

Intro to Terraform with AWS

Learn the basics of using terraform to manage your AWS infrastructure.

Variables and Outputs in Terraform

In this post, we'll go over the basic structure of a terraform module and how to use variables and outputs...

S3 and IAM with Terraform

In this post, we will look at how to set up an S3 bucket and an EC2 instance using terraform. The S3...

Cloud-init and Terraform with AWS

In this article, we’ll look at how to use cloud-init with terraform to install and configure nginx on...

Terraform | VPC, Subnets, EC2, and more

Let's take a look at how to use the aws cli to create a VPC, Subnets, EC2 instances, and more.

Terraform Modules

A terraform file can get very large very quickly as you add more and more resource blocks. Custom modules...

Storing Images in S3 from Node Server

Learn how to store your web app's files in an s3 bucket. Upload, Download, Update, and Delete images...

CloudFront Signed URLs with Node.js

Create signed urls to access files in a CloudFront distribution. Learn how to generate the signed URLs...

Set up a CloudFront CDN for an S3 Bucket

Learn how to setup a CloudFront distribution for your S3 Bucket to securely deliver files with low latency...

Deleting files from S3 and CloudFront | Invalidate CloudFront Cache

When you delete an image from s3, it stays in the CloudFront cache until the cache is cleared, usually...