Shashank's Projects

The cloud has been an immense force and it’s still on the rise for the past few years.

I have been pursuing the developments in AWS for some time now and it’s fascinating. A while back, I cleared their Solutions Architect exam.

A fun fact is that so far I have been able to host my websites for free.
If you stay in the free-tier, the first year hosting would be absolutely free.
After the fisrt year, if you are a regular at AWS annual events, like me, then AWS gives you enough credits to keep a small personal blog up and running without spending a dime.


This website and my blog has been created using Hugo as the static website generator and is hosted on Amazon S3.

Following AWS services were utilized for presenting this webpage:

  1. Amazon S3 - for storing and hosting the website.
  2. Amazon Certificate Manager - Issuing SSL certificate.
  3. Amazon CloudFront - Global CDN network.
  4. Route 53 - Routing the domain name.

I have been working on another project, which I am hoping to get live by the end of the year.

The project is to set up a place where creative people like artists, musicians, animators, etc, could come together and collaborate on a project.

The final architecture of the project is yet to be finalized, but the following services would be leveraged:

  1. Amazon S3 - for storage of resources.
  2. Amazon EC2 - Hosting WordPress.
  3. RDS - database for the application.
  4. VPC - securing and isolating the EC2 and Database instances.
  5. WAF - Application Firewall.
  6. Amazon Certificate Manager - Issuing SSL certificate.
  7. Amazon CloudFront - Global CDN network.
  8. Route 53 - Routing the domain name.