So today I sat the AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification Exam and passed! This is my second certification exam I have sat after the Azure Fundamentals one I sat last year. This time was different than the Azure one. Colleagues at work encouraged me to look into doing this particular exam and my employer is going to...

I am a fan of Azure but today I have been looking at AWS. Specifically how to upload and download files. AWS S3 stores files in Buckets. I already had an AWS S3 account setup with a Bucket. I am going to assume you have got a bucket setup and concentrate on the code to get files in and out. First step is to use nuget...

Last time I started looking at Amazon Web Services and how it differed from Azure. I am going to continue looking at what it can do. Virtual Machines Lets look at what you can do with Virtual Machines. I selected to create a new Virtual Machine (or as AWS calls them an EC2 Instance) First you choose a name for your VM...

I am a big fan of Azure but I know zero about its biggest rival – Amazon Web Services or AWS. So lets sign up for a free trial and see what it can do. The AWS free trial is available from https://aws.amazon.com/free/ and lasts for 12 months. From memory I think the Azure free trial lasted only one month. To start you...