AWS on Greg Herlein

Book Review: AWS Cookbook

Sun, 22 May 2022 00:00:01 -0800

Tl;dr: The AWS Cookbook is a must have addition to your reference library. Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the author.

Enable Chatbots on the phone using Amazon Lex and the Amazon Chime SDK

Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0700

Telephony made a huge leap forward last week. It’s insanely easy to build a voice chatbot for phone calls!

Creating an Ephemeral EC2 Instance for Development for Testing

Sun, 13 Feb 2022 00:00:01 -0800

“Cattle, not Pets!” they say. Except that for a lot of development, coders make their own laptop their favorite pet. “It works on my machine!” becomes normal. I got tired of that and automated the creation of my dev environment..

My First Amazon Blog... ML/AI Chatbot over the Phone!

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0700

A month ago I told you I changed roles at AWS. Now I can show you what I’ve done since then!

Back to the (Phone) Future! Changing roles!

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0700

The only constant is change! And… sometimes things come full circle. I’m changing roles at AWS. Back to the Future!

Progress on ESP32 and FreeRTOS

Sun, 04 Apr 2021 00:00:01 -0800

Progress, but not where I want it to be. But it builds and installs the FreeRTOS AWS IoT demo.

Back to Basics: AWS IoT C SDK

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:01 -0800

A few quick notes on getting the AWS IoT C SDK running on Linux.

Dabbling into ESP32 and FreeRTOS

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:01 -0800

Dipping a toe into the FreeRTOS ESP32 world.

Kinesis Video Streams - Just Getting Started

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0800

Just started playing with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams.

AWS SysOps Administrator Certified!

Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:00:01 -0800

This week I passed the AWS SysOps Administrator (Associate) Exam. Here’s some notes on what I did to prepare, and observations of the process.

Changes - Ending 2020

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:00:01 -0800

As 2020 thankfully winds down, I leave Cisco and join AWS.

Using CloudWatch for On-Premise Ubuntu Servers

Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:01 -0800

Can I replace a local Prometheus with AWS CloudWatch? And include syslog monitoring as well? Yes, I can. But it was a PITA to set up. Here’s how.

Terraform in AWS: use AMI Names not IDs - and is Terraform the right answer still?

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 07:21:00 -0800

In AWS the AMI ID for a particular VM image is unique to that region. But it’s name is consistent across AWS. When building infra-as-code (such as terraform) use the name, not the ID. And some musings on terraform. Is it still the right answer for infra-as-code?

Self Driving Revolution

Sun, 10 Feb 2019 09:00:29 -0700

Think self-driving technology requires deep pockets to play with? Think again. AWS DeepRacer and Autoware are the leading edges of self-driving automation for the maker.

AWS Certified

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 23:50:38 -0800

On Becoming an AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate)

Avalanche! re:Invent 2018

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:50:01 -0800

Thoughts on AWS re:Invent 2018