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AWS Weekly LabMay 30, 2026

Week 2: Automating PostgreSQL Provisioning with ServiceNow and AWS

In my 14 years as a DBA, I've seen this scene play out hundreds of times. A developer raises a ticket:"Need a PostgreSQL database for my new service."The ticket…

AWS Weekly LabMay 25, 2026

Week 1: From Ticket to EC2 in 6 Minutes: Enterprise Self-Service Infrastructure on AWS

Every large enterprise has this problem: a developer needs a VM. They open a ticket. It goes to a queue. Someone reads it three days later, asks clarifying ques…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 18, 2026

Day 30 - Multi-Environment GitOps Drift Detection with Automated Remediation

To conclude my30-Day AWS Terraform Challenge,I tackled a critical problem for modern cloud architectures:managing infrastructure drift across multiple environme…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 17, 2026

Day 29 - GitOps Patient Zero — Continuous Delivery on AWS EKS with Argo CD and Kustomize

Today's project moves away from manual, ad-hoc cluster provisioning and embraces true modern cloud operations by setting up a production-gradeGitOps Continuous…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 16, 2026

Day 28 - Building a Highly Available 3-Tier AWS Application with Terraform and GitHub Actions

For Day 28, the goal was to build a highly available 3-tier application on AWS. The application included a Node.js frontend, a Go backend API, and a PostgreSQL…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 15, 2026

Day 27 – Production Style AWS Infrastructure with Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD

For Day 27 of my AWS and Terraform learning journey, I wanted to move beyond basic Terraform deployments and simulate a more production style Infrastructure as…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 13, 2026

Day 26 -Terraform Cloud and Workspace Management

For Day 26 of my AWS Terraform learning journey, I explored HCP Terraform Cloud and workspace management.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 12, 2026

Day 25 - Terraform Import for Existing AWS Resources

Today I worked on Terraform import as part of Day 25 of my AWS Terraform learning series.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 12, 2026

Day 24 - Highly Available and Scalable Django Application on AWS using Terraform

Today I worked on deploying a highly available and scalable Django application on AWS using Terraform. The goal of this project was to understand how production…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 10, 2026

Day 23 - Building S3 Security & Operations Monitoring using Terraform, CloudTrail, CloudWatch and SNS

For Day 23 of my AWS Terraform journey, I built a security monitoring solution for Amazon S3 using Terraform modules.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 9, 2026

Day 22 - Deploying an RDS MySQL Web Application Stack with Terraform Modules

For Day 22 of my 30 Days of AWS Terraform challenge, I built a small but complete web application stack using Terraform modules.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 8, 2026

Day 21 - AWS Policy and Governance

For Day 21 of my AWS Terraform learning journey, I worked on a mini project focused on AWS policy creation and governance setup. The goal was to build a small b…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 7, 2026

Day 20 - Deploying an Amazon EKS Cluster Using Custom Terraform Modules

In this project, I deployed a complete Amazon EKS environment using Terraform custom modules. The goal of this implementation was to understand how production s…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 7, 2026

Day 19 - Understanding Terraform Provisioners with AWS EC2 and Nginx

For Day 19 of my challenge, I explored Terraform Provisioners using AWS EC2.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 6, 2026

Day 18 - Serverless Image Processing with AWS Lambda, S3, and Terraform

For Day 18 of my AWS Terraform learning journey, I built a backend only serverless image processing pipeline using Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Lambda Layers, and Ter…

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 4, 2026

Day 17 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk Blue Green Deployment with Terraform

Today I worked on Blue Green Deployment using AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Terraform.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 3, 2026

Day 16 - Managing AWS IAM Users with Terraform using CSV

Today I worked on managing AWS IAM users using Terraform with a CSV-driven approach.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 2, 2026

Day 15 - Cross Region VPC Peering with Terraform

There’s something powerful about watching two completely separate networks start talking to each other… quietly, privately, without the internet even noticing.

30 Days of AWS TerraformMay 1, 2026

Day 14 - Static Website Hosting using Terraform

Today I worked on my first mini project in my AWS Terraform journey. The goal was to deploy a static website using S3 and CloudFront.

30 Days of AWS TerraformApr 30, 2026

Day 13 - Terraform Data Sources

Today’s learning felt like a shift from “building everything” toworking intelligently with what already exists.

30 Days of AWS TerraformApr 29, 2026

Day 12 - Terraform Functions Part 2

Today I continued my Terraform journey by working with advanced built-in functions.

30 Days of AWS TerraformApr 28, 2026

Day 11 - Terraform Functions Part 1

Today I worked on Day 11 of my AWS Terraform learning journey. The focus was Terraform built-in functions and how they help clean, transform, validate, and reus…

30 Days of AWS TerraformApr 27, 2026

Day 10 - Terraform Dynamic Blocks, Conditional Expressions, and Splat Expressions

There is a moment in learning Terraform where it stops feeling like writing static code, and starts feeling like shaping logic. Day 10 was that moment for me.

30 Days of AWS TerraformApr 26, 2026

Day 9 - Terraform Lifecycle Meta Arguments in AWS

In the previous days, I focused on creating resources using Terraform.Today was different.

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