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I am happy to announce that my first online course, AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate, is now live on Udemy.

In this post, I want to introduce you with this new course. I will talk about the topics, what you will learn by taking it as well as the structure of the course. In addition, I will also share a free coupon that will be valid for a limited time with the followers of this blog.

Continue reading the My AWS CloudFormation Step by Step: Beginner to Intermediate Course is Live on Udemy! blog post.

In an AWS CloudFormation template, you define independent resources or resources that are implicitly dependent; in other words, referencing other resources. For instance, you can define an Amazon EC2 instance and a security group. Then, you might choose to attach the security group to the EC2 instance or not. In these two cases, AWS CloudFormation organizes the order of the resource creations differently.

In addition, you might have another resource, such as an Amazon SNS topic in the same template, which you might want to provision after your EC2 instance is created. Maybe you have an explicit dependency between them.

In this blog post, I will talk about how AWS CloudFormation handles the order of creation for independent or implicitly dependent resources. I will also explain how to add your custom dependencies in a template.

Continue reading the The Order of Resource Creations on AWS CloudFormation blog post.

The most popular usage of Amazon CloudFront is to distribute static content such as images, videos or other objects existing in an Amazon S3 bucket. However, you can also use Amazon CloudFront to distribute your dynamic content such as a Ruby on Rails or PHP web application and benefit from the advantages of utilizing the globally distributed network infrastructure of AWS. In this blog post, I will talk about the advantages and the necessary configuration options for creating an Amazon CloudFront distribution for a dynamic web application.

Continue reading the Serving Dynamic Websites with Amazon CloudFront blog post.

Today, encrypting data at rest is crucial for enhancing security of our applications. Besides, it might be a requirement for your compliance regulations. Whatever the reason is, it is a best practice to encrypt your Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes. In this post, I will show you how to encrypt an Amazon EBS volume using its integration with Amazon Key Management Service (KMS).

Continue reading the Encrypting Amazon EBS Volumes blog post.

When you dockerize a Ruby on Rails application on AWS, it is essential to configure logging correctly to monitor application health. There are some tweaks to achieve this and I will briefly describe the process in this blog post.

Firstly, let’s make a brief introduction to Docker along with its deployment options on AWS.

Continue reading the Configuring Rails Logging for Docker on Amazon ECS & Fargate blog post.