DNS

Part 6: DNS - Custom domain name with Amazon Route 53

Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge The Challenge Part 6: DNS - Custom domain name with Amazon Route 53 Part 5: HTTPS - Set up Amazon CloudFront Part 4: Static Website - Amazon S3 Part 3: CSS - Style your website Part 2: HTML - Create a website Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge tl;dr: Use Amazone Route 53 to register a custom domain name and point it to your CloudFront distribution. ...

April 25, 2025
HTTPS

Part 5: HTTPS - Set up Amazon CloudFront

Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge The Challenge Part 5: HTTPS - Set up Amazon CloudFront Part 4: Static Website - Amazon S3 Part 3: CSS - Style your website Part 2: HTML - Create a website Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge tl;dr: HTTPS is like HTTP, but secure. Use CloudFront to front your website redirecting HTTP to HTTPS. Encrypt your data in transit with HTTPS Have you notised that ugly triangle saying “Not Secure” where there usally is a pretty lock icon in the address bar? ...

March 1, 2025
static website with s3

Part 4: Static Website - Amazon S3

Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge The Challenge Part 4: Static Website - Amazon S3 Part 3: CSS - Style your website Part 2: HTML - Create a website Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge tl;dr: Host a static website from AWS S3 Hosting a static website Finally we get to the good part. Now we get to play with some AWS services. And by the end of this post we will have our personal cloud resume webpage out on the world wide web. ...

January 7, 2025
css

Part 3: CSS - Style your website

Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge The Challenge Part 3: CSS - Style your website Part 2: HTML - Create a website Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge tl;dr: Learn some basic CSS at w3schools.com. Style a website using CSS. What is CSS? Cascading Style Sheets or CSS is the language used to style html. It is pretty easy to understand. And with the help of google and maybe ChatGPT, you should be able to style you webpage just the way you want it. ...

January 5, 2025
html

Part 2: HTML - Create a website

Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge The Challenge Part 2: HTML - Create a website Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge tl;dr: Create a website using HTML What is HTML? HTML is the standard markup language for Web pages. With HTML you can create your own Website. HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it! w3schools.com Crossroads When building our website I see three choices: ...

January 4, 2025
The Cloud Resume Challenge

Part 1: Get AWS Certified and complete The Cloud Resume Challenge

tl;dr: Complete an AWS Certification Exam and create an AWS Account. Next we’ll create a website using different AWS services. Following the steps of The Cloud Resume Challenge Complete The Cloud Resume Challenge This is the first post in a series on our journey completing The Cloud Resume Challenge. In short The Cloud Resume Challenge is a challenge to create a website and to host it using a cloud provider. It’s a great way to learn about AWS. My first though was just to rush through it by my self, then write about how I did it afterwords. But I felt it would be to general and high level so I changed my mind. Now the plan is to do one post pr step. This way I can go a bit more into details on each step and all the great AWS services that we will be using throughout this challenge. I can wait to get started. Let’s go! ...

January 3, 2025