AWS - Chris Mendez

AWS

A ecosystem / kingdom for Internet businesses of any size.

Transcribe Web3 lingo using Custom Vocabularies within AWS

Improve your AWS transcriptions using Custom Vocabularies.

Deploy an ExpressJS application using Serverless, Express and API Gateway

Deploy an ExpressJS application using Serverless, Express and API Gateway

How to deploy a simple ExpressJS application using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3 and Cloudformation.

Deploying Rails 5.x on AWS ElasticBeanstalk using AWS CodeCommit

How to deploy your Rails app on ElasticBeanstalk (including S3 buckets, security groups, load balancers, auto-scalling groups and more) using CodeCommit.

Create CRUD-style apps using AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework

Create CRUD-style apps using AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework

How to use an npm-based Serverless framework to build lambda functions on AWS.

AWS: Creating a subdomain forward to Amazon WorkMail

AWS: Creating a subdomain forward to Amazon WorkMail

This entry is very similar to my previous article on how to create a subdomain forward using S3 [https://www.chrisjmendez.com/2018/03/16/creating-a-redirect-using-aws-s3-and/]. All I want to do is create an Amazon Workmail [https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/] account, get the generic URL Amazon offers, and add

Radio: How to submit your podcast to iTunes and Spotify

Sometimes you need to self-host your own Podcast files and feed. Here's how using Amazon Web Services.

AWS: How to create your first Alexa skill

How to create your first Alexa skill –with pictures!

AWS: Understanding Alexa's Key Concepts

A glossary of Alexa terms you need to know before you start developing skills.

AWS: How to get one lambda to trigger another lambda

This lambda will trigger the second lambda. Step 1 - Configure IAM First create an IAM role that will allow you to not only trigger a lambda but also allow one lambda to trigger another lambda. My role will be named role-lambda-basic-execution. Step 2 - Create Lambda Function #1 This

AWS: How to restore folders from Glacier to S3 Standard

If you store files using Amazon Glacier, you'll notice that it's not very easy to restore files within a folder using the web console. Instead, you'll see "Initiate Restore" greyed out. I've found the easiest way to restore a directory full of files is through the AWS Command Line. If

What is Big Data?

What is Big Data?

A few basic questions and answers on big data from a software engineer and product manager.

Using ngrok to test your Facebook oAuth callbacks

Using ngrok to test your Facebook oAuth callbacks

How to configure Facebook Login oAuth callbacks for local Angular development.

AWS: Useful AWS Bucket Policies

I plan to add more of these over time but for starters, here are a few helpful bucket policies I use while hosting static websites on AWS S3. ACCESS Public Access If you're building an Angular app or a single landing page, this is pretty much all you need. { "Version"

Server-side Encryption in AWS

Server-side Encryption in AWS

While learning AWS S3 encryption, I found most of the information online to either be technically dense or unnecessarily difficult to understand. Below are my plain English explanations. NOTE: I found this article and it does a much better job providing a comprehensive overview. I suggest reading this article [https:

Creating a subdomain redirect using AWS S3 and Rules

Creating a subdomain redirect using AWS S3 and Rules

How to create a custom URL redirect (or forward) using Amazon Web Services.

Radio: Prepare your podcast for iTunes distribution using AWS Elastic Transcoder

Amazon Web Services offers a suite of tools for podcast producers to distribute their audio online. There's CloudFront for caching, S3 for storage, Glacier for long-term storage, Elemental for real-time distributing, Tailor for server-side ad insertion. I thought it would be to fun to show how to use Elastic Transcoder

Fixing Apache "Address already in use" error

See this error? (98) Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80. Here's how to fix it.

AWS: Using the command line to get an EC2 instance ID

AWS: Using the command line to get an EC2 instance ID

Here are three ways to get the instance ID of an EC2 server using the command line. Built-in If you are logged into an Ubuntu machine. ec2metadata --instance-id Curl curl command using an IP address. curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id curl command simplified. curl http://instance-data/

AWS: Connect to Lightsail using SFTP and Panic Transmit

AWS: Connect to Lightsail using SFTP and Panic Transmit

Amazon offers a newer, simpler alternative to EC2 instances called Lightsail. Lightsail is very easy to use and excellent for any small business interested in creating a simple app. I was recently asked to create a Wordpress website using Lightsail and it took less than 10 minutes. In fact, the

How to publish an Mp3 to Icecast using NodeJS (Part 2 of 2)

How to publish an Mp3 to Icecast using NodeJS (Part 2 of 2)

How to publish an MP3 to Icecast for syndication using NodeJS.

AWS: How to install Icecast on AWS EC2 (Part 1 of 2)

AWS: How to install Icecast on AWS EC2 (Part 1 of 2)

How to install Icecast for cloud-based streaming radio.

Basic Curl Commands for API Gateway

AWS's API Gateway is great for developers who need a simple API for their SaaS Services. When it comes to testing out your API, there are many great tools such as POSTMAN or PAW but sometimes all you really need is a few curl commands These are the three commands

Bitnami WordPress Cheatsheet for AWS Lightsail

I'm currently working on two WordPress websites that have been pre-configured by Bitnami within a Virtual Private Cloud. Below are a few select commands I use all the time but only found them while scouring through forums and comment boxes. I hope this collection helps other WordPress managers save time.

AWS: Modifying Robots.txt within a Bitnami EC2 instance

AWS: Modifying Robots.txt within a Bitnami EC2 instance

Bitnami offers Wordpress for AWS Cloud [https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00NN8Y43U] which is great for developers whom are not interested in focusing on DevOps topics such as installing php, Apache and Wordpress. The Bitnami package does it all but there are a few things you'll need to modify

AWS: Using Rake Tasks to SSH into EC2

I work a lot with EC2 and one thing I always have to Google is how to SSH into an AMI, Ubuntu, Fedora, or CentOS instance. Part of the challenge is that the usernames slightly differ so I wrote this Rakefile to help me remember how to complete simple tasks.