My Cloud Journey
In December 2024, I earned two cloud certifications: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and AWS Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02). The study experience largely felt like memorising a massive product catalog rather than fostering practical skills.
To distill and organise the AWS essentials from this vast amount of information, I created this podcast using Google's NotebookLM. Tune in and explore the key AWS concepts:
And explore the key Azure concepts as well:
I was also eager to get some hands-on experience. This led me to:
Serverless Mini-Projects:
(January 2025)
Positive Affirmation Generator: This fully serverless application leverages Amazon CloudFront for optimised content delivery, DynamoDB for storing affirmations, Lambda function for processing logic, and API Gateway to expose the functionality. Though modest in scope, this project offered valuable insight into designing and deploying a scalable, serverless stack.
Random Colour Generator: AWS cloud computing can be intimidating, with its intricate service interactions and configurations. But it doesn’t have to be. By hosting a simple static website in an S3 bucket and using Amazon CloudFront for caching and global delivery, I built a lightweight application that demonstrates key cloud benefits: fault tolerance, high availability, cost efficiency, and a seamless user experience.
Building these serverless mini-projects was a fun challenge that helped me get comfortable working with APIs, S3, and Lambda—exactly the skills needed for real-world cloud work.
My cloud journey continued when I applied the replatforming strategy (also known as "lift, tinker, and shift") to migrate an already successful Project Management System to AWS.