I Almost Over-Engineered a Blog with AWS

I used to think publishing a personal site meant AWS, WAF, Route 53, and a weekend of debugging. Turns out it’s a markdown file and git push. My first AWS course was in 2018. The textbook had printed screenshots of the AWS console UI that you were supposed to follow along with before opening the actual console. Think about how insane that is. The AWS UI changes so frequently they’d need to republish the book every 45 minutes to keep it accurate. But that was the world, and I learned in it. ...

March 22, 2026 · 3 min · Joe Capozzoli