Every day is new. Yes, it is Monday, and we have been through (almost) countless Mondays. It is the start of a new school week, or work week. Because of those two things, Monday gets, I think, a bad rap. …

As a woman who is transgender, there is a lot of negativity to deal with. State legislators that want to implement laws to discriminate against us by limiting access to medical care. People claiming religious values to treat others outside what they were “taught” casting stones at you. …

When things occur with a future date, it can be difficult to wait. Well, “difficult” is likely missing an adjective; like “impossible”. First date. First Prom. Wedding. Divorce. The weekend! Time has the ability to be very cruel when we are in a hurry. It feel like time is against…

The Holiday Season every year can be challenging for a lot of people for a lot of reasons. . Recently losing a spouse, parent, child, friend, can spark sadness and reignite grief. Being in a stressful and painful relationship. Being financially in a bad place. …

Disclaimer: I am a Senior DevOps Consultant with AWS Professional Services. This is an original work derived from publicly available documentation. In many CloudFormation templates we create IAM roles and policies. These can be identity or resource policies. Verifying we have a functional policy defined within CloudFormation template is often…

Disclaimer: I am a Senior DevOps Consultant with AWS Professional Services. This is an original work derived from publicly available documentation. Anyone who does any work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) at some point in time gets very familiar with the AWS Command Line Interface. This article is going to…

I am a Sr. DevOps Consultant in the Amazon Web Services Professional Services division. This article is my work using publicly available information and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. Listen to the podcast! Spotify Developers on the AWS platform often complain about AWS CloudFormation missing capabilities…

I am a Team Lead/Sr. DevOps Consultant in the Amazon Web Services Professional Services division. This article is my own work using publicly available information and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. CloudWatch becomes an essential part of understanding what is happening within our infrastructure and application…

I am a Sr. DevOps Consultant in Amazon Web Services Professional Services division. This article is my own work using publicly available information and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of my employer. Amazon CloudWatch (hereafter referred to as CloudWatch) collects log and metric data from EC2 instances and other…