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Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by joshuamarksmith »

I might be too late to not get lost in the comments, but I did notice this flashcard:

> How can you establish a secure connection from your office or on-premises datacenter to AWS?

> Connections to AWS resources are typically encrypted by default (HTTPS, SSH, etc.)

> You can establish a Site-to-Site VPN between your VPC and your on-premises network.

> If you do not want traffic to cross the internet, you may be able to establish a Direct Connect connection, which is a dedicated network connection between your on-premises network and an AWS edge location (from where traffic is routed to your AWS resources using AWS' internal networks).

I want to note that Direct Connect traffic is NOT encrypted by default and this is common misconception, both in real life and in exams. You must combine DX and S2S VPN.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directconnect/latest/UserGuide/e...

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by arolihas »

GSGBen wrote: post #88
shard wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not knowing AWS, this sub-thread reads like a real-life version of the Microservices sketch: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ

For anyone skimming the comments and considering skipping this video: do yourself a favor and don't. Krazam's tech comedy is unparalleled.

The day in the life one was amazing as well.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by mzg »

milansm wrote: post #39
baobabKoodaa wrote: post #7

Hi, author here. I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many hours tinkering with the UI and crafting questions that I'm happy to see that people are finding value in it :)

This is exactly how I studied for hard (theory-heavy) exams at the university! If this would cover >90% of what can come up on the certification exam, I would be willing to pay! Please take my money!

AWS Professional Services here -- we all study for our cert exams using the site acloud.guru. They're not always perfect, but generally pretty good and handy for spot study. May be a good choice if you want to go deeper than these flashcards. AWS also offers in-person training sessions that are quality, but I'm not sure what the status of those are given the ongoing pandemic.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by celim307 »

arolihas wrote: post #92
GSGBen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone skimming the comments and considering skipping this video: do yourself a favor and don't. Krazam's tech comedy is unparalleled.

The day in the life one was amazing as well.

It hit too close to home. It described me and everyone I knew age 22 - 30 in tech to a T. We really aren’t as original as we’d like to believe

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by userbinator »

js4ever wrote: post #2

Well done! Thanks for those who needs to pass AWS Certs. But on another side after checking few flashcards it seems you will turn into an AWS Marketing Parrot, more than really learning skills (Eg: question about AWS Shield)

But on another side after checking few flashcards it seems you will turn into an AWS Marketing Parrot, more than really learning skills

I have a feeling that's partly the intent of the whole certifications program. I'm someone who has no use for AWS (nor interest in any cloud stuff, really) and has never even looked at any of their services in detail, but was once challenged to try one of their practice exams, and recall getting about 75% of the questions right simply by educated guessing with a perspective of "which of these answers seems to make sense and would make the most $$$ for Amazon?"

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by codeisawesome »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #38

This would be fantastic to add to a DevOps wiki/forum that I've been wanting to make for ages. I just never get started because I want it to be perfect and can't decide even what to name the damn thing, much less how it should be organized

This is an excellent idea and I look forward to browsing it when you start! Also as you’ve already conceptualised as a wiki - don’t worry about organising it perfectly, you’ll never figure it out yourself. Let the community (which you will bootstrap by contributing your knowledge) do that for you. Oh and just “TheDevopsWiki” is a great name.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by arolihas »

celim307 wrote: post #94
arolihas wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day in the life one was amazing as well.

It hit too close to home. It described me and everyone I knew age 22 - 30 in tech to a T. We really aren’t as original as we’d like to believe

The lack of originality hurts I guess. What was more biting was the faux productivity, tech addiction, and social isolation and alienation of such a mundane daily routine.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by hnzix »

bigyikes wrote: post #67
jrockway wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sometimes I wonder if the old world where you had to buy computers and drive to the datacenter at 3 in the morning to replace dead hard drives was really so bad. I guess it was really so bad. Everything you have to build for yourself in the cloud is something you probably needed in your self-hosted stack -- a directory of users, permissions (and escalation), firewall rules, SSH key material, etc. I feel like no matte…

Haven’t used it in years, but Heroku was really great in this respect. It was very easy to just focus on making a good app instead of trying to configure everything myself. I guess there’s probably not much demand for this kind of thing at large scales.

Heroku can be a hard sell to mgmt because of the cost, but if it's framed in terms of "this means you don't need to pay for two AWS cloud architects to be on call" then it's a much easier pitch.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by hkamara »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #7

Hi, author here. I'm so happy to see this appear on HN front page! I almost didn't post this on HN as I wasn't sure if there would be interest towards a site like this. I spent so many hours tinkering with the UI and crafting questions that I'm happy to see that people are finding value in it :)

Thanks for posting this. AWS is so complex, there are so many products on it that it's often overwhelming to know where to start to learn it, so this is very helpful.

Re: Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

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Post by Aeolun »

noir_lord wrote: post #32
vishnugupta wrote: post #20

At this point AWS has gotten so complex that one has to jump through a dozen hoops to get the simplest of things done. To scale up our reporting I thought it’s a good idea to offload report generation to a lambda function. Read from MySQL, dump into S3 and mail a link to that S3 file, make the link expire after couple of hours. Reasonably simple enough. But by God was it painful!! IAM is a rabbit hole, now later VPC…

This mirrors my experience working with Lambda's - I went the "deploy docker images as lambda's" route and that was mostly OK (I mean it's just node/sharp etc) but the actual setup up - good god, I swear some of that documentation if read aloud would summon Cthulu.

I recently did this with API gateway v2. The documentation basically stops at ‘there is this field, and it is a string’.

I mean, fantastic, but what does this resource even represent, and what do I put in the string? It’s clearly an enum.

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