So in my AWS studies I came across a course from edX titled “AWS Developer: Building on AWS”. This is an awesome course that gives you hands on experience with multiple services in AWS. Its structured in such a way where each week will only take a few hours to complete and there are 6 weeks of courses. If I recall as long as you are not “overly testing” your solution (which would have to be significant) you are unlikely to go over the free tier on AWS.
This is going to be a long series of posts over time. Links for quick reference can be found here: November 2018:Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV December 2018:Part V January 2019:Part VI February 2019:Part VII September 2019:Part VIII October 2019: Part IX In my absence of not blogging, I’ve still kept this little side analysis going, and the full box has now been opened and the result was just as I was expecting.
So now that i’ve moved the blog over to a serverless architecture I thought I’d take the time to post how I went about enabling SSL and where to from here. Simple Storage Services (S3) Getting a static website up via S3 is super easy. Open up the S3 console -> select your bucket -> go to Properties -> Static Website Hosting. Select Use this bucket to host a website.
Its been a while since I posted a blog. I have just been really busy with what seems like a never ending stream of things that need to be done. Over the last month or so, I have been getting into AWS a lot for both work and personal use. I was fortunate enough to get a subscription to A Cloud Guru and I have hit that content hard. Very hard!
This is going to be a long series of posts over time. Links for quick reference can be found here: November 2018:Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV December 2018:Part V January 2019:Part VI February 2019:Part VII September 2019:Part VIII October 2019: Part IX So its been a few weeks since I’ve posted an update of where this is at, with the hiking trip and some extra bribery for the kids happening we are now at the 1⁄2 box mark.
Despite the rather long week there were just a few more walks to tick off the list. The first being a short 3km return trip to the Rainbow Lake just outside of Perisher. It was a nice stroll through the snow gums. The water had a shade of pink to it which cause by some type of water lily. After that short stroll we drove into the Bimbiri wilderness to have a look at the Blue Waterpools and the Coolamine Homestead.
Sleep – its totally overrated, especially when you are the one not getting any sleep to begin with. The overnight weather was perfect. About 10 degrees, not cold at all, but I had made a critical mistake yesterday, one that I didn’t realise in time and that was not applying sun-cream. I was burnt. My legs, arm and face all copped a lot of exposure on the range. Trying to get comfortable wasn’t happening, I’d roll on my side and my burnt legs stuck, on my back and my arms were sticking on the tent floor.
This was the start of the main event. We had well intentioned plans at the start to take on the 11 peaks walk at Mt Kosciuszko National Park. Michael and I had many discussions about just about every aspect of this walk up to this point. From the extra weight in our packs, camping at Mullers Pass, daytime weather, night weather, short term forecasts, amount of time available, the amount of snow out on the range, the amount of walking we had already covered up to this point, the way we were feeling at this point etc.
So with my foot about as good as it was going to be with the recovery time I had, today was another test before we drove a further 320kms north. This was a critical point. If my body wasn’t going to hold up then I was going to make the call to come home early. The drive up to Mt Buffalo isn’t the nicest of drives. Its slow, uphill and full of curves.
Well today was the big one one. With a bung foot I made the call to not do this long hike in the hope that I still had a chance to complete some of the other walks we had planned later in the week. I dropped my friend Michael off at the trail head nice and early so that he could try to get ahead of the heat and I spent the day soaking my feet in hot baths of Epsom salts, icing my foot and munching on anti-inflammatories.
Leaving Mansfield in the morning I had pain, a lot of pain…. Show stopping pain in my right foot. I knew it was bad as I hobbled around and it threatened the rest of the week. We were due to take a day out at Mt Buffalo but given the development, we decided to take an easy day and drove out to the Kelly Tree located less than a km off the Tatong-Tolmie Rd.
So it begins, a week of epic hiking planned and it started a day earlier than expected. Lucky for me, I had an easy morning planned in preparation. We left my house around 1:30pm on Sunday with a drive out to our first hike starting at the Mt Buller Alpine Village. The drive is fairly straight forward until you start heading up the Mt Buller Road where there are a series of hairpin turns as you ascend the mountain.
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