Objectives for this project are: Create a Standard SQS Queue using Python. Create a Lambda function in the console with a Python 3.7 or higher runtime. Modify the Lambda to send a message with the current time to the SQS queue. We will use the built-in test function for testing. Create an API gateway HTTP…

Scenario: Our DevOps engineering team often uses a development lab to test releases of our application. The Managers are complaining about the rising cost of our development lab and need to save money by stopping our three EC2 instances after all engineers are clocked out at the end of the business…

Increasing Reliability and Availability with CloudFront — Before we start creating this project, let's discuss what Amazon S3 and CloudFront are. S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an object storage service for storing data in buckets. S3 is a global service that gives us 99.999999999% durability, also known as the 11 9’s; however, the buckets are region-specific. CloudFront…

A step-by-step guide to creating a three-tier architecture — Scenario: We have been asked to design and create a highly available three-tier architecture for our company’s new web application. We must be able to access the web tier web page from the internet. …

In this guide, we will create a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment of an app for our developers. We’ll have to provide our developers with a static site URL and then make some modifications to the code in our GitHub repo to verify the pipeline is working. So, what…

A tutorial on creating an Auto Scaling Group using AWS CloudFormation — CloudFormation is an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool that allows developers to provision AWS resources quickly and efficiently. The code is written in text files using Yet Another Markup Language (YAML) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Objectives for my CloudFormation Template: Create a security group that will allow inbound traffic from our…

Using AWS CLI — In this tutorial, I will guide you through creating a t2.micro EC2 Instance with NGINX installed as the webserver. The best part is that we will be configuring this instance using the AWS Command Line Interface. Objectives: Create a t.2micro EC2 instance with Ubuntu 22.04 as the OS Create a…

High Availability — Objectives: Create a launch template for our EC2 instances Create an Auto Scaling Group with a minimum capacity of 2 and the maximum capacity of 5 instances spreading across three subnets Terminate an instance to simulate a failure and see how the auto-scaling group responds Before we get started, we…

Hello everyone! This week I was tasked with editing and changing code on a GitHub repository. You’re probably asking yourself, “What is GitHub, and how will we do this?” To answer the first part of your question, GitHub is a web-based platform for Git repositories that allows you and other…