Cloud Resume Challenge II

At the end of the Cloud Resume Challenge the final requirement is a blog post describing what you've learned. This is that blog post.

I'll start with, Oh boy did I learn a lot. As mentioned in my initial post, I am wholey inexperienced. Even after getting my SAA I felt theoretically prepared but, full disclosure, that's probably because I didn't log in to the AWS console once during the five months I studied. That was dumb, don't be me.

According to my AWS Home page, these are the services I touched on in the process of completing this challenge:

This doesn't include learning GitHub or the SAM CLI either. Because I had never used the AWS console during my studies, I first completed this challenge by creating my resources manually and using AWS Pipeline before recreating my back-end with a SAM template. Overall, the project took me just under two weeks to complete.

As far as what I learned, the most fascinating was CI/CD and SAM. I didn't think I would get much satisfaction in seeing a green checkmark and my resources provisioned as intended, but oh man. Like sending your kid off to school and having them come back with a gold star, sweet sweet validation. On the other hand, the most troubling thing I had to learn was dealing with CORs configurations, Which was easily implemented in the console but strangely elusive during the SAM implementation. I learned so much more than can be mentioned in the short form, which is why I hope to expand on this blog with more in-depth reflection for my sake and hopefully yours as well.