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Mapping DNS Alias to EC2 via ALB
With Route 53, you have different records: A, AAAA, CNAME, and more. These can point to AWS resources- for example, CNAME and Alias can point to resources in different ways. I want to explore creating several EC2 instances, and Application Load Balancer (ALB), and then pointing that ALB to a domain name. First I create…
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Backend for AK – explore RDS
Previously, I uploaded an html file to the relevant s3 bucket, setting the permissions for the public to access the contents, setting the CORS policy, and then deleting the cloudfront setup which I had created previously but wasn’t working correctly. I’ll add that in later but the focus is on building the functionality so that’s…
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Prompt Engineering
Getting results from LLM – hard or easy? It’s easy, but it gets harder if you want more specific results. Getting predictable , consistent results that you could put in front of your customers- this is the hard part. Giving better context is what allows genAI to perform a specific task more easily. How you…
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Managing Storage
I’m currently working on a project that uses a RDS MySQL database instance to store data, and via a script and the DBMS (database management system) retrieve data as a result of queries. There are various service solutions that AWS offers to approach a similar result: for the case of big data, then Athena might…
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Next steps post-Solutions Architect
Previously, I have worked to build infrastructure using cloud services including virtual machines in networks using subnets, Internet Gateways, firewall configurations, S3 buckets, database, etc. While those are good, I will be shifting to a development focus for the next chapter- using tools like React, Vite, Azure SWA, Azure SQL server, node, TypeScript, etc. These…
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CloudFormation, JMESPath, and more
In my last post, I explored provisioning AWS resources using CloudFormation, a change-up from my usual Terraform explorations. There’s a lot of similarities between the two approaches, which isn’t surprising. In this post, I’m going to practice working more with CloudFormation (CF). One of the tools that I was recommended to learn by someone in…
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Automation with CloudFormation
I’m working hard to learn AWS services really well, and part of that journey has included becoming proficient with various automation tools and processes. For example, creating Python scripts, Bash scripts, or Terraform files to create that type of automation process that would ensure timely remediation and error-free implementations. In this post, I’m going to…
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