AWS Serverless Metadata Workflow

Writing by Bradley Matera

AWS articles and internship notes

Longer explanations of the internship environment, the serverless metadata workflow, AWS cost controls, Cognito authentication, certification study, and the cloud systems connected to my other projects.

AWS Cloud Support internship

The training environment, troubleshooting process, capstone project, and boundaries of the work.

Illustration of an AWS troubleshooting console and connected cloud services.

AWS Cloud Support Internship: What I Actually Practiced

A direct account of the guided support labs, cloud troubleshooting workflow, networking practice, serverless metadata capstone, and the production responsibilities that were outside the internship scope.

Cloud architecture and cost

Practical notes about resource usage, billing risk, service choices, and small cloud deployments.

Illustration of AWS cost monitoring and billing controls.

AWS Free Tier: What Actually Costs Money

A checklist for finding active resources, setting budgets and alerts, and verifying that an account is actually idle.

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Illustration comparing AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud

A comparison of free tiers, compute, databases, deployment friction, and billing behavior from running small projects.

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Illustration of the ProjectHub assistant and its cloud architecture.

How I Built ProjectHub

The architecture behind a grounded recruiter assistant using free-provider failover, a small cloud VM, safety checks, and analytics.

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Authentication and learning

Smaller technical setups and the study process behind the AWS certifications.

Illustration of an Amazon Cognito and React authentication flow.

Cognito Authentication With React

A small implementation showing user pools, app clients, Amplify configuration, sign-in, and JWT verification.

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Illustration of an AWS certification and learning roadmap.

Certifications and Continuous Learning

How certification study connected service concepts to consoles, IAM permissions, logs, architecture, and troubleshooting.

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Illustration connecting combat medic experience to engineering operations and troubleshooting.

From Combat Medic to Software Engineer

How assessment, stabilization, documentation, escalation, and handoff translated into engineering work.

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The main blog includes the full archive and search results for AWS, cloud, authentication, and infrastructure topics.