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Why an AWS Certification ALONE won’t get you an AWS job
Students often ask me if gaining a certification like the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate is enough to get them...
Cloud Computing Sustainability: How Green Is the Cloud?
Cloud computing sustainability or 'Green Cloud' refers to an environment-friendly cloud that reduces carbon emissions and promotes the use of...
Cloud Computing Basics – Compute
Along with storage and networking, compute is one of the key foundational building blocks of the cloud computing infrastructure layer....
Fundamentals of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing offers computing resources over a network to provide convenient and on-demand services. Cloud computing uses applications, hardware, services,...
AWS Health Checks: ELB vs ALB vs Auto Scaling
When you are aiming to build a highly scalable, durable and resilient cloud architecture to service your end users, it...
AWS SCP – Mastering AWS Service Control Policies
Service control policies (SCP) are organizational policies that you can use to manage different permissions in your organization. Using SCP,...
Top 10 Reasons to Join an AWS Bootcamp
Studying a new career in the cloud can be hard. Not only do you have a seemingly unlimited list of...
What is AWS Glue?
AWS Glue is a pay-as-you-go service from Amazon that helps you with your ETL (extract, transform and load) needs. It...
The Main Pillars of an AWS Well-Architected Framework
Developing a cloud-native business application, most often comes with different challenges related to scaling, costing, efficiency, infrastructure, etc. To successfully...
Is Azure easy to learn if you know AWS?
Modern application development is based on cloud-native technologies. There are many cloud vendors, and each carries its own set of...
AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam is changing to SAP-C02
If you're planning on earning the extremely valuable AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification, you need to know that AWS...
Career Change to IT | A practical Guide
Moving to a career in IT is a challenging process! It takes a large degree of effort and determination to...
AWS EC2 Instance Types and Use Cases
EC2 are low-cost, reliable, and scalable virtual machines running on hardware provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Users only pay...
AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI): A Complete Guide
Amazon provides a myriad of tools which help developers, architects, and administrators to develop and manage AWS cloud services. These...
Why You Need to Learn Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Cloud computing is here to stay, and some might even consider cloud the next big leap in the tech revolution....
Comparison of AWS vs Azure vs Google
Cloud computing has revolutionized the way companies develop applications. Most of the modern applications are now cloud native. Undoubtedly, the...
Load Balanced Architecture with Advanced Request Routing
One of the main challenges when learning Cloud Computing is to build hands-on experience. When learning only the theory, one...
Security on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
When configuring your environment on the AWS Cloud, one of (if not the most important thing) you can do is...
How to save money on Amazon Web Services
If your costs are not managed properly, cloud deployments can be very expensive. The Cloud has been heralded as a...
AWS Lambda Versions and Aliases
Serverless computing has been on the rise the last few years, and whilst there is still a large number of...
Calculating WCU and RCU for AWS DynamoDB
DynamoDB is a pivotal part of the AWS ecosystem, and understanding how it works can be a tremendous aid to...
AWS Security Group vs NACL – Key Differences
There are significant protections provided to you natively when you are building your networking stack on AWS. This wide range...
Cloud Security Comparison – AWS vs Azure
Within any deployment and across any and all cloud providers - Security is job zero! This means that above all...
AWS Networking – ENI vs EFA vs ENA
There is no stopping Amazon Web Services (AWS) from innovating, improving, and ensuring the customer gets the best experience possible...