March 2026

AWS Foundations

#2 – IAM Basics

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a global AWS service used to manage access to AWS resources. When an AWS account is first created, a root account is created automatically. The root user has full access to the account. However, it is best practice not to use the root user for everyday tasks. Instead, […]

AWS Foundations

#1 – AWS Cloud Introduction

Amazon Web Services (AWS) started as an internal infrastructure used by Amazon. Over time, the company realised other organisations could benefit from the same infrastructure, so they began offering it as a service. The first AWS service launched was SQS (Simple Queue Service), which allowed applications to communicate asynchronously using message queues. Today AWS provides

Cloud

Moving 500GB of Data Globally into Amazon S3

When collecting large datasets from systems distributed across multiple continents, the main challenge is usually reliable and fast data transfer into a central storage location. A common pattern in AWS for this scenario is combining S3 Transfer Acceleration and Multipart Upload. This approach works particularly well for workloads such as log aggregation, telemetry collection, or

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