Infrastructure on My AWS Rocks!

Are you 'The One'

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

## AWS Certified Global Community Challenge

In June I was asked to participate in creating a challenge as part of a series of challenges for the AWS Certified Global Community.

The idea of the challenges was to provide example of code that had been broken by hackers with the goal of remediating the issues to return the system back to a fully functioning state.

By completing the challenges, individuals not only gained points for the community leaderboard, but also were able to learn new skills and real like usage of code.

Creating a Well-Architected VPC

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

So this is the first in my posts walking through how to deploy a solution in AWS. Hopefully you find it useful as VPCs are the foundation for private and secure networking in AWS and an area many struggle. This guide is designed to ensure that your VPC deployments can be Well-Architected and provide a base level of network security but is only one option for VPC layout. While it will meet a vast majority of workloads you might want to review the structure and reduce, or increase, the number of subnets as well as other components.

Why CloudFormation

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

People have asked why I use CloudFormation (CFN) and not other tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). There are several reasons for this.

Firstly, I’m not a developer. I come from an infrastructure background and although understand scripting and programming constructs it’s not my expertise. This means no matter what tool I had to learn it was all relatively new to me.

Secondly, when I started my Infrastructure as Code (IaC) journey Terraform had been out for less than a year. I was also working with AWS engineers who only dealt in CFN templates and the boot-camp I attended at re:invent 2015 all focused on CFN.