The us-east-1 outage of 2021
December 7th 2021 saw an outage in the us-east-1 region of AWS. The outage had a significant impact, not just on AWS, but for many customers all around the world.
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Hosting a static website on AWS
To try and keep my hosting costs down, I decided to redevelop AWSSecurity.info and publish it as a mkdocs site, instead of WordPress. This is allowing me to host the site on S3 with CloudFront, rather than keeping an EC2 instance active all the time.
In this post, I will share with you details of how I achieved this.
Things I don't like about AWS
Last Updated: 2024-06-09
Full disclaimer – I am an Amazon Web Services fanboy. I love their cloud offering and I proudly hold 3 AWS certifications. Through my day job, I am also getting exposed to Azure. Yes, I know – Azure is a swear word amongst Amazonians, but the reality is that many companies do dabble in multi-cloud strategies. Some cloud providers are better at some things than others, and some features are just nicer than others, so with that, I decided to start putting a list together of some of the cool (and not so cool) features I have spotted on both platforms.