DevOps · Cloud · Security
Step-by-step tutorials in plain language, from real setups: launching a server on AWS, running your own VPN, hardening a Linux server.
Ordered articles that teach a whole topic from the start, one part at a time.
Series · 29 of 29 parts published
An ordered series that walks you through Amazon Web Services: nine sections, from the fundamentals and permissions to servers, networking, storage, modern applications and security. Each part builds on the one before.
Parts finished
The series finale. Where your money goes on the network, the tools that watch your bill, the Well-Architected Framework, building everything from a template with CloudFormation, Systems Manager, and where to go after this series, with a hands-on.
What RPO and RTO mean, the four disaster recovery strategies and their cost, central backups with AWS Backup, moving databases with DMS and servers with AWS Transform MGN, and a hands-on where you delete data and bring it back.
How KMS protects your keys, where to keep passwords with Parameter Store and Secrets Manager, free certificates from ACM, stopping attacks with WAF and Shield, and detecting threats with GuardDuty, Inspector and Macie, with a hands-on.
Managing many accounts with Organizations and SCPs, conditions in IAM policies, roles versus resource policies, permissions boundaries and how AWS makes a decision, single sign-on with Identity Center, and a hands-on simulating policies.
How do you know your application is healthy, who changed what, and whether your settings are still as they should be? Metrics, logs and alarms in CloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudTrail and Config, with a hands-on alarm that emails you.
Every article is filed under its topics, so you can get to what you need quickly.
Amazon Web Services: servers, networking and access.
30 articlesLaunching and managing virtual servers on AWS.
6 articlesHardening servers: firewalls, SSH and permissions.
5 articlesManaged databases, caching and choosing the right one for your data.
4 articlesCommands and configuration for Linux servers.
4 articlesDNS, content delivery, private networks and connecting them.
4 articlesMonitoring, disaster recovery, cost and running what you have built.
3 articlesObject storage: buckets, storage classes, encryption and safe sharing.
3 articlesManaging users, groups and permissions on AWS.
2 articlesQueues, notifications and streams that keep services apart.
2 articlesLoad balancing, auto scaling and building fault-tolerant applications.
2 articlesRunning code and data without managing servers, paying for use.
2 articlesDisks, file systems and backups on AWS.
2 articlesPrivate, encrypted networks you control yourself.
2 articlesReady-made services for images, speech and text, and generative models on your data.
1 articleCore cloud concepts: regions, availability and shared responsibility.
1 articlePackaging applications in containers and running them with ECS, Fargate and EKS.
1 articleQuerying S3, data warehouses, dashboards and streams.
1 articleSetting up WireGuard and connecting devices to it.
1 article