You were recently hired as an AWS Solution Architect for a major consulting organization. After a brief introduction to the various cross-functional teams (DevOps, Data Warehousing, Business Analyst), you received clear instructions from your manager about the scope of your responsibilities to onboard a new client into the organization cloud…

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool used to manage the entire lifecycle of infrastructure by using declarative statements to provision, adjust and tear down infrastructure in various cloud providers. The goal of this hands-on project is about leveraging the awesome capabilities of Terraform to provision a three-tier…

In this fiercely competitive business world, companies which meet the evolving demands of the marketplace will often have an advantage over their competition. To maintain this winning edge, many companies are executing a best practice in software architecture known as “decoupling”. Decoupling is a process in software architecture that ensures…

Securing and maintaining IT infrastructure has never been a greater challenge as security threats are compromising organizations’ information assets. From large scale hacks to ransomware attacks, organizations across all industries are compelled to strategize and implement robust security measures to protect their data. And Bastion Hosts are often regarded by…

Use Case You recently joined the DevOps team of a major healthcare organization as a Cloud Solution Architect. During a meeting discussion with your team lead, she tasked you to design and implement an efficient process to publish an AWS SNS message from an EC2 instance that’s hosted in an Amazon Virtual…