AWS

I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam

Two weeks of studying, a lot of practice exams, and one less thing on the list.

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How I set up CloudWatch monitoring and alerts for my EC2 instance using SNS

A practical walkthrough of setting up CloudWatch alarms and SNS notifications to monitor an EC2 instance — so you know when your server goes down before your users do.

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Automating blog deployment with GitHub Actions

Every time I published a post I had to SSH into the server, run hugo build, and hope nothing broke. Here’s how I automated that with GitHub Actions.

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How I built my personal blog on AWS for free

A step-by-step breakdown of how I went from a blank AWS VM to a live blog with HTTPS, a custom design, and an AI pipeline — all on the free tier.

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