Getting Hired at AWS

The interview process at AWS can be daunting! I was very fortunate that I received some great advice when going through my interview process. Much of that I will try to distill in this blog post. First a word about Amazon and the hiring process. Although, the process itself is daunting, stressful, and hard work; it is designed with the candidate in mind. Now, truthfully it doesn’t feel this way when you are going through it.

Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)

During BlackHat and Defcon, AWS and others made a joint announcement around the creation of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF). I’d encourage everyone to take a quick look at that announcement. Why I feel this is significant is really due to the companies that were involved in making this happen. This is a situation where industry leaders came together to create a framework that will be made available to everyone.

Using Lightsail for WordPress

For some time I had been running WordPress on a Raspberry Pi Zero. At first it was more of an experiment. I had wanted to first stand up a very basic webpage, but then thought… “I wonder if a Pi Zero could run WordPress”. The answer… it can… SLOWLY. Considering I expected zero traffic, this wasn’t a problem. Now, my ambitions have taken me further and the reality of how efficient and value driven the cloud is has been fully realized.

I moved the site to AWS!

I decided to go through the AWS experience myself. After hosting my website and other services from home, I jumped both feet into the AWS cloud. I’m around the cloud all day with my job, but I already had everything working at home. Already I have noticed how much faster this is and how little there is to worry about. More to come on my home network journey into the cloud!