Welcome to Towards the Cloud.
I've migrated hundreds of workloads to @awscloud and learned it the hard way. Now I'm sharing my take on best practices on this blog so you can successfully migrate yours!
Free AWS certification study guides.
More and more companies are looking for the right cloud engineers. Therefore it's a good idea to develop yourself and get AWS Certified.
Not only will this increase your chance of getting you next job in the Cloud, you'll also be prepared to make better design decisions best on best practices.
To help you get prepared for the AWS Certified exam, I've created a series of study guides that'll help you pass the exam in one go!
How to pass the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam - 2022 guide
16 min readApril 29, 2022
With this guide on the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam, you should get fully prepared to pass the exam on the first attempt!
How to pass the AWS Cloud Practitioner exam - 2022 guide
10 min readApril 28, 2022
This AWS Cloud Practitioner exam guide will provide everything you need in order to pass the AWS Cloud Practitioner effectively in one go!
Featured Posts
Down below you'll find some of my most popular blog posts.
How to set up AWS CDK - complete guide
8 min readJanuary 05, 2022
Install AWS CDK by running the following command in your terminal: npm install -g aws-cdk. Then you can continue to initialize your first project.
10 Best Free AWS Learning Resources for Beginners
6 min readFebruary 23, 2021
This blogpost provides free resources for beginners to get started with AWS through videos, whitepapers, labs, and certification guides.
10 Best VS Code extensions for Python in 2022
7 min readJanuary 12, 2022
This list includes the 10 best VS Code extensions that help you develop applications and code faster using Python.
Featured Projects
Here I've listed some of the more interesting open source projects I've worked on.
CloudFormation Snippets for VS Code
This extension adds snippets for all the AWS CloudFormation resources into Visual Studio Code.
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CDK Construct Snippets for VS Code
This extension adds L1 construct snippets from CDK into Visual Studio Code.
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Library of Code Snippets
Down below you'll find some of my most used code examples and snippets.
Configure OpenID Connect for GitHub in AWS CDK
Build a GitHub OpenID Connect (OIDC) with AWS CDK and create a GitHub Action workflow to authenticate with AWS.
How to share resources across stacks in AWS CDK
A complete example of how to share resources between CDK stack, in the same AWS CDK App
Application Load Balanced Fargate Service example in AWS CDK
Create an Application Load Balanced Fargate Service in AWS CDK