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I’m happy to report that just shy of two years after I posted that I’m an AWS Certified Solutions Architect! (Associates level), that I’ve now leveled up to the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional level! As my AWS experience has hit the roughly 5 year mark (and my associates was expiring) it turned out…
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If you work in the cloud, you’ve probably got an AWS account. It’s not just any account though, it’s the magical “AWS Root Account”. With this root user account, you are imbued with the god-like power to create worlds and smite instances. Your power is only limited by the thickness of your wallet (and the…
sad-mac-icon Gather round l’il ones and let old man Jon tell you a little story about the time he learned to never say never. Twas not terribly long ago when he was trying to spin up a fleet of Squid Proxies. Being the hip DevOps guru he is, the proxies were stored safely inside of…
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate I’m pleased to report that as of Wednesday afternoon I’m an AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate. While I’ve been working in/on/around AWS for years now, it’s nice to have the certification that proves I know what I’m doing. Amazon’s testing, unlike a lot of the certifications in tech…
AWS re:Play. Yes, the outside is a wall of [FEU shipping containers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit#Forty-foot_equivalent_unit ‘[wiki] Twenty-foot equivalent unit’). (From [@Werner](https://twitter.com/Werner/status/653134135700123648)) As expected, AWS re:Invent had more goodies in store for us after the Day 1 keynotes session. Most of the excitement centered around the new product announcements from the Day 2 keynote. The major difference between the…
Today was the first day (sans instructional courses) of the 4th annual AWS re:Invent conference. While I was unable to attend this year, I’ve been eagerly watching the streams and keeping an eye on the news feeds. There have been many product announcements leading up to re:Invent, but the “really good stuff” was kept for…