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I'm Ryan

AWS Certified Associate - Solutions Architect, SysOps Administrator, Developer

Check out my projects page for various AWS patterns available as infrastructure-as-code bundled with demo apps to deploy with the infrastructure.

For anyone interested in AWS Fargate, Kubernetes clusters or any other use case that needs high availability VPC networking, some of those modules are available on Terraform Registry.

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AWS Fargate Networking and Deployment Optimization with Terraform

Create a VPC, split the network into public and private subnets and create the IAM Roles and Security Groups needed to begin taking a look at the networking options available for Fargate. Also take a look at different optimization, logging and monitoring settings.

Fargate Networking Docker Terraform ECS

AutoBlog: A CI/CD pipeline with AstroJS, Terraform, GitHub Actions

Create AWS infrastructure with Terraform then push an AstroJS web application to GitHub. After a successful build of Astro, GitHub Actions deploys the app to AWS.

AWS CloudFront Terraform AstroJS Github Actions

Cogneato: User Authentication with React, AWS Cognito, API Gateway, Lambda

Create a serverless architecture for a React application that uses AWS Cognito, API Gateway, and Lambda for user registration and authentication. The application also takes a look at protected routes with React Router and getting retrieving user profile information from DynamoDB.

AWS Cognito Terraform API Gateway DynamoDB React

Terraform and AWS: Create a VPC with High Availability Networking

Create a stand alone VPC with already configured ingress and egress networking for deploying highly available servers across multiple private or public subnets.

AWS VPC Terraform Kubernetes

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AWS Fargate: Networking Options for Tasks in Private Subnets

When your applications are running in containers on Fargate, there are a few options for getting internet access to them. If they can't be placed in public subnets, NAT Gateway or VPC Endpoints are common solutions for Fargate tasks in private subnets.

Fargate Networking Docker ECS

An OAuth 2.0 Overview for Understanding AWS Cognito

OAuth is the standard many modern applications go by for granting user access to secure resources. AWS Cognito adheres to OAuth standards so understanding it helps immensely with putting together the pieces of Cognito.

OAuth AWS Cognito

AWS Cognito: User Pools, Identity Pools and App Clients

AWS Cognito is an identity management platform for web and mobile applications for registering users, authentication and authorization. User Pools and Identity Pools are the two main components of Cognito, but play very different roles in the authentication and authroization process.

Terraform AWS Cognito

AWS Elastic Container Service Overview

Elastic Container Service lets you manage containerized applications at scale on AWS with several cluster modes and pricing options. Here's a quick refresher to go along with the ECS project.

Terraform ECS Docker

AWS Lambda Python Deployments: Zipped, Layers, Docker Containers

Zipped deployments are still great but not for every use case so this is a look at layers and Lambda container images. Also a look at improvements to container images since their 2021 launch.

aws lambda python terraform