Aws - Tag - Compa Compila

From Latin America to UAE: My Personal and Professional Journey in 2025

El Compa — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:04:38 +0400

Reflections on a year of limitless growth. Join me as I summarize my 2025, marked by my new life in Dubai, cloud certifications, and my adventure in the Open Source world.

Encryption in AWS: A Key Guide for Your Solutions Architect Interview

El Compa — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:04:38 +0400

Are you preparing for a Solutions Architect interview and want to master security concepts? This complete guide is your starting point. We break down the fundamentals of encryption in a simple and direct way: learn the difference between an algorithm and a key, when to use symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption, and how these concepts are applied in the real world with practical examples from key AWS services like S3, KMS, EBS, and SSH. Read this article and confidently answer encryption questions in your next interview!

From Chaos to Control: Managing Microservice Environment Variables in AWS

El Compa — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:04:38 +0400

Managing environment variables across 40 microservices can be chaotic and insecure. Discover how we tackled this challenge by centralizing secrets and configurations with AWS Parameter Store instead of AWS Secrets Manager. This article offers a step-by-step guide, including Go code examples, to improve your system's security and simplify operations.

Three AWS Associate Certifications in Six Months: My SysOps Admin Experience and Beyond

El Compa — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:04:38 +0400

Mission accomplished! I'm proud to have completed the AWS Associate core by obtaining my Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator certifications. Learn about my journey to the SysOps Admin exam, the essential operational knowledge, and why these three certifications are a game-changer for cloud professionals. Find out what's next for my professional growth!

S3 Bucket Policies: Utility and Practical Examples

El Compa — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:04:38 +0400

Navigating AWS S3 bucket policies can be tricky! This article breaks down what S3 bucket policies are, how they work, and provides practical examples to help you control access and define rules for your S3 buckets. Learn how to manage who can read or create objects, enforce encryption, and even restrict access based on tags or secure transport (HTTPS).

S3 Bucket Versioning: Advantages and Implications

El Compa — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 12:04:38 +0400

Learn about the advantages of enabling versioning on S3 buckets and its implications. Also, understand what happens when you suspend versioning on a previously version-enabled bucket.

Lifecycle Policies in S3 Buckets

El Compa — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:04:38 +0400

Learn how you can use lifecycle policies in S3 buckets to move objects from one storage class to another and to automatically delete objects.

S3 Storage Classes

El Compa — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:04:38 +0400

Learn about the differences between the various storage classes available for S3 buckets.

What are S3 buckets and what are they for?

El Compa — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:04:38 +0400

Learn about S3 structure, its physical architecture, its main features and also its limitations.

My AWS Journey

El Compa — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:04:38 +0400

In this article I talk to you about my experience in AWS and I give you recommendations about how to study to get AWS certifications.

Practical application of CloudFront functions

El Compa — Sat, 17 May 2025 00:04:38 +0400

I show you how I solved a navigation problem on my blog using CloudFront functions

Deploying our blog in a serverless way

El Compa — Wed, 14 May 2025 05:05:38 +0400

I show you how to deploy a static website in a serverless way using S3 buckets and Cloudfront distributions