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How to Set Up SSL on an AWS EC2 Instance Using Apache and Let’s Encrypt (Certbot)

Free HTTPS for your Apache-hosted application in less than 10 minutes.

Understanding Amazon EBS with a Hands-On EC2 Project

When learning AWS, it’s easy to understand what an EC2 instance is because you can immediately launch a server and connect to it. However…

Attaching an EBS Volume to an EC2 Instance in AWS

This guide will go over how to attach an Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) to an EC2 instance, format it with a filesystem and mount it to a…

The EBS Volume You Forgot Is Costing You More Than the EC2 Instance It Was Attached To

Understanding orphaned storage economics at scale, and a practical framework to stop the bleeding.

Stop Paying for SSL: FREE HTTPS with Docker, Nginx & Certbot (Auto-Renew)

So, you finally deployed your application to a Virtual Machine, like Google Compute Engine, AWS EC2, or an Ubuntu VPS. You type in your…

Hosting Your Own HTML Website on AWS EC2 Using Nginx

Imagine you have just rented a shop and opened it to customers.

AWS Training- Day 04: Introduction to Amazon EC2

On Day 4 of my AWS Cloud training, I explored one of the most fundamental AWS services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This lab focused…

Hosting Your First Website on AWS EC2 Using Nginx

Imagine you have just rented a shop in a busy marketplace.

How to Migrate TimescaleDB to AWS EC2 (Step-by-Step Guide)

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.” — Feynman

Deploying a NestJS Backend with Docker on AWS EC2

A Complete Step-by-Step Guide — From Zero to Production

Recovering a Locked-Out EC2 Instance: How I Got Back In Without Losing Production Data

How I got back into a production server that would not accept the key or the console, kept the app online the whole time, and saved the…

Learning from Failure: AWS Auto Scaling Group & Application Load Balancer

Today, I worked on an AWS hands-on lab to deploy a highly available web application using an EC2 Launch Template, Auto Scaling Group (ASG)…

I Was Wrong About Lambda. We’re Going Back to EC2.

After two years of serverless-first architecture, we deleted 150 Lambda functions and saved $3,600 a month. Here is what we kept on Lambda…

Nobody’s Home: How AWS Lambda Runs Code Without a Server

If EC2 is like renting an apartment, Lambda is like staying in a hotel room you only pay for while you’re actually sleeping in it. You show…

Serverful vs Serverless: The Compute Concept Every Developer Should Understand

If you’ve ever deployed an application to AWS, Cloudflare, Azure, or Vercel, you’ve probably heard terms like EC2, Lambda, Cloud Functions…

WebSockets Through AWS CloudFront VPC Origins: Keeping Your Load Balancer Private

For a long time, exposing a real-time backend on Amazon EC2 or Amazon Elastic Container Services (ECS) behind Amazon CloudFront meant…

So, What Actually Is Amazon EC2?

If you’ve started learning AWS, you’ve probably run into EC2 within the first five minutes. It’s usually the first service every tutorial…

AWS Compute Services Explained: Which One Should You Actually Use?

If you’re new to AWS — or even if you’ve been using it for a while — the sheer number of compute options can be overwhelming. EC2, Lambda…

Building an Offline Indian Languages Speech-to-Text iOS App with AI4Bharat and CoreML

How I converted a fairseq/HuggingFace wav2vec2 model to run entirely on-device on iPhone — and the two invisible bugs that only showed up…

What is Amazon VPC? Building a Secure Network for Your EC2 Instance

Imagine you’ve just launched your first EC2 instance.

Rethinking Node Scaling in Amazon EKS with Karpenter | EKS Crash Course (Chapter 4)

Build a production-ready Karpenter deployment using Terraform, Helm, EC2NodeClasses, and NodePools while validating the complete node…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Release Date 10Sep2022 (Netflix Release 23Dec2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water

Release Date 16Dec2022.

🚀 Building and Deploying My Own AI Chatbot on AWS EC2: A Complete Journey

From an Idea to a Live AI Assistant

Deploying Temporal Server on AWS Fargate with OpenTofu

A complete, production-oriented guide to running a self-hosted Temporal cluster on serverless containers — no EC2 instances required.

Building a Secure Web Application on AWS using IAM, VPC, EC2, and CloudWatch (Hands-On Project)

Introduction

How to attach EBS volume to EC2 instance

Note: Using Very raw language refer screenshot for guide.

How to Set Up a Static IP for Your Team Using OpenVPN on AWS EC2

When working with backend systems, teams often need access to private resources such as databases, staging servers, internal APIs, admin…

Complete Jenkins + Maven Setup on AWS EC2 (Beginner to DevOps Engineer Guide)

If you’re starting Jenkins on a fresh AWS EC2 instance, one of the most confusing parts is understanding where Java, Maven, and Jenkins…

What Is AWS? The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Amazon Web Services (2026 Edition)

Learn AWS from Scratch — EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS, Lambda, Cloud Computing Concepts & Real-World Use Cases

How I Cut My AWS Cloud Bill by ~90% by Moving from EC2 to Fly.io, Neon, and S3

🚀 Ubuntu OS Upgrade on AWS EC2

A Complete Step-by-Step DevOps Guide with Prompt Explanations

When to Use What in Container Orchestration in AWS (ECS Deployment with Fargate + ECR)

Asking the Right Questions When Designing AWS Container Architecture, Fargate vs ECS on EC2 vs EKS with ECR

Deploying Airflow on EC2: A Production Guide

How to run Airflow on EC2, behind an ALB, deployed with CloudFormation

How to update SSL certificate for AWS Load Balance

1, find the Load balancers in EC2

First Principles Decision Making

Why I Used S3 Instead of EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, or Lambda

Deep Copy in a K8S Operator: Why make generate Exists

When you change API types in api/v1/ec2instance_types.go, the routine is familiar: run make generate, and controller-gen writes…

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with AWS CDK (EC2 Example)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a DevOps approach where infrastructure is defined and managed using code instead of manual setup. This…

How I Automated AWS Infrastructure With Ansible — A Beginner’s Honest Journey

Ansible playbooks, EC2 provisioning, passwordless SSH, and conditionals explained through real mistakes, real errors, and one very…

Deploying Gemma 12B to AWS EC2 with NVIDIA L4

This article provides a step by step debugging guide for deploying Gemma 4 to an AWS hosted GPU enabled system,. A suite of Python MCP…

Connecting Windows to AWS EC2: A Complete Terraform and SSH Guide

Getting Started with Amazon EFS: Scalable, Shared Storage for Your EC2 Instances

When building applications on AWS, one common challenge developers face is sharing files across multiple EC2 instances in a reliable…

AWS CloudGoat EC2_SSRF Lab Walkthrough: Step-by-Step Manual Configuration and Exploitation

Overview:

AWS: Self-Managed EC2 NAT Gateway vs AWS Managed NAT

Setting up a NAT Gateway on AWS EC2 as a replacement for AWS Managed NAT Gateway - cost comparison, Linux NAT config, and AWS VPC Routes

How I Deployed Aqsa Zam Zam Mirza Johar Baig Tailoring Business on AWS Using EC2, Amplify…

~ Aqsa Zam Zam Mirza Johar

AWS SSM: Deploying with GitHub Actions

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) lets a GitHub Actions workflow run shell scripts on a private EC2 fleet without storing long-lived AWS access…

How to deploy a website using EC2 Instance…

If you’ve ever deployed a website on platforms like Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages, you’ve probably noticed how easy it is. Upload your…

The Invisible Glue: Why You’re Doing AWS Wrong (and Why Lambda Is the Cure)

Let’s be honest: most people use AWS like it’s just a really expensive basement full of someone else’s computers. You spin up an EC2…

From EC2 Fundamentals to Production Architecture A GCC Enterprise Guide

How a Dubai startup goes from one rented server to a system that survives a launch and the decisions an architect makes at every step.

How We Built Our Own Self-Hosted Expo OTA Update Server (And Why You Should Too)

How we ditched EAS and built our own OTA update pipeline using EC2, S3, and CodePipeline