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A New Era

It’s been a while

So as the title says it’s been a while but due to starting a new role last February and then COVID it’s been a very busy time. Slowly things are getting back to a normal type of day and so time now to get some training completed but this time in Azure and not AWS.…
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AWS | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

So last week I passed AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam and so I thought I’d take the massive step to start study for the Professional version. Below will be all mt take away’s from the course and of course this will be in useful links White Papers: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01)…
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AWS | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate | PASSED

Today I took the SAA-C01 exam and passed. Thats 2 exams in a month and I’d not used AWS before the start of January and now well on my way through the exam process. Next is to start looking in to AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate practice exams and get that booked in the…
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AWS | EBS Disk Types

There are 4 types of EBS disk (at the time of writing) and it will depend on what you want to do with the disk to what type you use. Below is a quick breakdown of each disk type and a description: As you will see two options of SSD and HDD. A very useful…
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AWS | Crontab

Something that I’ve learnt but not mentioned is ‘crontab’ which is basically the scheduling solution for Linux and you can set a job to run every minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week. To access crontab be logged in and elevate to root with ‘sudo su’ and the type ‘cd…
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AWS | All Whitepapers & Guides

It seems that AWS has provided a very useful link to all of the Whitepapers it’s produced and keeps them up to date. It’s not only Whitepapers but also really useful Guides and I only now found this link when another link to a Whitepaper failed. These Whitepapers & Guides can be found here.

AWS | Certified SysOps Administrator Associate

Finished the Certified Solutions Architect course and will be reading through my post, links and notes but now on to the next course which should also help in passing the Certified Solutions Architect exam. White Papers: Exam Guide AWS Security Best Practices Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes AWS Well-Architected Framework Development and Test…
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AWS | Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Now that the Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is passed it’s on to the next one and I will keep adding useful information on this post. White Papers: Architecting for the Cloud Operational Excellence Pillar Useful Links: Instance Metadata and User Data New! Attach an AWS IAM Role to an Existing Amazon EC2 Instance by Using…
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AWS | AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner | PASSED

Today I took the CLF-C01 exam and passed which I’m very happy about. This was taken whilst at home using the OnVUE software from Pearson. The Digital Badge can be seen here.

AWS | Zero to Hero

For many years VMware and Microosft have been the areas that have been focused on. At the end of 2019 my contract ended and I decided that AWS is a technology that I need to get certified in and focus on. This is now happening with courses purchased and whitepapers downloaded to read through. I…
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