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One AWS account, several environments, and tags as the only map
How VPC Atlas draws and inventories one environment of a shared AWS account with its new tag filter, and what it leaves out. When the account is the…
The AWS network inventory, now also a CSV you can filter
What the VPC Atlas inventory holds, the four formats it comes in, and why I made the CSV one flat row per resource. The diagram is the picture, the…
Prowler has HIPAA checks. What checklist-based compliance still misses.
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. The 2018 conversation In Prowler issue #227 , a user asked: "any plan to add [HI…
Working with S3 Object Tags in Buckets: SET, MERGE and CLEAR
A practical walkthrough for keeping Amazon S3 objects organized without changing what is inside the files. Object tags are easy to overlook when you…
NAT Gateway vs VPC Endpoints: Which Path Should Your Private AWS Traffic Take?
Private subnets are one of the first good habits you learn in AWS. Put your EC2 instances, containers and databases where the internet cannot start…
How to find the closed port that stops an EC2 web page loading, and lock down SSH
You launched an Amazon EC2 instance, installed a web server, and typed its public address into a browser. The tab spins and then times out. Nothing…
Free AWS practice exams: how to actually use them well
Most of us have wasted at least one practice exam. You sit down, blast through 65 questions, glance at the score, feel either great or terrible, and…
Pearson VUE Free Retake 2026: Which IT Certification Exams Qualify
The Pearson VUE free retake offer gives you one free second attempt if you fail an eligible exam. You must opt in, use the promo code from the email…
Moving Lambda Logs to a Centralized Location [S3]
Moving Lambda Logs to a Centralized Location[S3] AWS Lambda gives you logs out of the box, but once an application starts growing, the real question…
A professional-grade website for under $5 a month
How I run my wife's clinic website https://naturlaskin.clinic on AWS with security, automation and the Well-Architected Framework built in from day…
Hands-On AWS: Spin Up IAM, S3 and a Jenkins Server on EC2 (and Fix What Breaks)
A step-by-step AWS lab with lots screenshots: create and delete an IAM user, host a site on S3, launch an EC2 server and run Jenkins on it, includin…
Athena read my timestamps as UTC. It didn’t tell me.
Nobody gets an error. Somebody gets blamed. I built a fake metal fab plant to find this kind of bug before a real customer does. Last week it caught…
AWS Lambda Web Functions: your HTTP server on Lambda, with real concurrency and active-CPU billing
On October 12, AWS launched Lambda Web Functions , and it's the biggest change to Lambda's programming model in years. Instead of writing a handler…
Google Built It. I Ran It on AWS.
The agent runtime is more portable than you think — mostly. Last week I got Google's Agent Substrate running on Amazon EKS, with S3 snapshots, RDS s…
Dockerized Mail Capture for AWS CI Pipelines
Email verification tests become unreliable when every CI job reads from the same inbox. A message from a previous run can look valid, a retry can co…
Temporal Policies in AgentCore: 98 Denied Deploys and a 409 That Never Came
I asked a Strands agent for something reasonable: “run the tests and deploy.” It issued run_tests and deploy in the same turn, and the Gateway rejec…
I built a customer support agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore — and it refused to say my name
I spent ten years in asset management, most of it translating what portfolio managers and quants built into something clients could actually follow.…
One Glue Job, Zero Orchestrators — My First Spark Declarative Pipeline on AWS Glue
Disclaimer This is an independent, personal write-up — not official AWS content, and not endorsed by or affiliated with AWS. It documents a hobby pr…
Today I Learnt: Ansible — Passwordless SSH Between Two EC2s, and My First Playbook
Everything I'd learnt about AWS so far was about AWS itself — EC2, S3, IAM. Ansible is the first tool I've touched that sits on top of servers and a…
🛡️ New AWS Account? Stop Surprise Bills in 10 Minutes (Hands-on)
🎤 The interview question "You just opened a new AWS account. How do you make sure a mistake can't quietly cost you money?" Freshers get asked this a…
How to explain protecting the AWS root user and everyday admin access in an interview
The interviewer leans back and asks: "You've just created a new AWS account. What's the first thing you do about security?" Many freshers answer "en…
The runner fleet that scales to zero
My homelab ran out, and for once it wasn't disk. It was capacity: there was simply no more memory in the Proxmox box to hand to a runner, and I'd sp…
A five-corner label broke my OpenCV capture loop
A shipping label looked complete in a GLS parcel photograph. My capture loop asked for another photo with all four edges visible. The failure starte…
57 Findings Across 12 AWS Services. Zero False Positives. No Credentials Required.
✓ Human-authored analysis; AI used for formatting and proofreading. NCC Group built SadCloud to test cloud security tools. It deploys intentionally…
AWS Launches Serverless AI Runtime: No Code, Just Compute
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially unveiled its new Serverless AI Runtime, a major update to its cloud computing service that promises to elim…
AWS Certified AI Practitioner AIF C01 Study Notes
A practical revision guide for choosing AWS AI and ML services, approaches, and controls I made these notes to revise the choices the exam repeatedl…
AWS Test Mailboxes Need a Cost and TTL Budget
An AWS test mailbox is a cloud resource, not just a test detail. Give each run a lease, a TTL, and a cleanup owner before CI starts creating disposa…
How to Build Transportation Management Solutions Around Real-Time Inventory Events
A warehouse can show 500 units available while the transportation system is still waiting for the previous stock update. That inconsistency can caus…
From Finance to AI Engineering: 6 lessons I learned building a Multi-Agent Support system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
After ten years in asset management, I started a full-stack developer path in 2024 and spent my time between blockchain and AI. Becoming an AI engin…