Below are steps I went through to create a Serverless app that saves email from an HTML form to a DynamoDB in a few hours. Apologies code is a bit rough, but I thought it was useful. Quite surprised by how easy it was. I was using AWS CodeWhisperer for…

I was wondering how to run OpenAI/ChatGPT code generation using the OpenAI API locally, so I thought I would have a play to see if I could get it working. Here are my steps. Beware, there are small costs involved. Prerequisites Linux based OS Python IDE You will need an OpenAI pay as you go Account First, sign up here View…

A multi-cloud architecture is a type of cloud computing approach in which an organization uses multiple cloud services from different vendors, rather than relying on a single vendor. Benefits This approach can provide a number of benefits, including: Improved Flexibility: By using multiple cloud services, organizations can choose the best solution…

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Sometimes you need to set up a blank Ubuntu Linux instance to test commands or pipeline executions or install things. Prerequisites Linux OS Docker knowledge Below I will go through how I set up a Ubuntu 22.04 docker container and be able to run commands inside it Add a Dockerfile touch…

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a framework used to provision AWS cloud infrastructure using programming languages such as python which below guide is based on. More information on AWS CDK here There is quite a few packages required for AWS CDK so I decided to containerise it so…

If you have uploaded new files and or changes to your S3 website bucket but you have no changes shown when you load your website url, you need to invalidate your CloudFront cache. S3 hosted websites are connected to Cloudfront distribution which caches content. …

How many AWS accounts do you have? If you are like me I have too many! Today I found out that you can consolidate them into a hieratical so you have one organization account and access to all your other accounts. …

This is a real-life case of how I save 38% of EC2 micro cost using EC2 Instance Savings Plan. I have an EC2 micro running at the moment which is always running a Barbershop website. …