My Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

I first got into AWS due to a project that I’ve been working on which required me to learn how to use Lambda for coding CRUD microservices. The languages that I have been coding in while working in Lambda have been .Net and Node.js. I learned that I could link Visual Studios to Lambda to streamline the development process. I also used Cloud9 for my Node.js code and we had a Git Repository in CodeCommit.

While coding my Lambda CRUD microservices, I utilized API Gateway and Lambda to access a RDS database. I used CloudWatch for logging and SES for emailing error messages. I worked with API Gateway to setup routing permissions, and Elastic Beanstalk as a way to spin up a server whenever I needed a quick testing platform.

Next I plan to use Cognito for authentication, SNS for event notification, and SQS for processing interface data.

After going to Amazon’s AWSome Day seminar, I had several things clarified for me, and quite a few ideas on where I wanted to move next in my work with AWS. I recently started working with S3 and Route53 in an effort host a static website. My plans are to move this website from a GoDaddy hosting to AWS as a means to lower my cost.