Aditya Blog

Memories of India's Cricket World Cup debacle in1992 and 1999 editions continue to haunt me. India's campaigns in those two editions were like a nightmare.  2007 World Cup was more horrible but at least it got over even before we realised that something horrible was happening.  6 week long World Cups can be a nightmare for a team in alien conditions and specially when things start falling apart for them. You need to have either a true leader who can pull you out of a rut or a closely knit team who would stand for each other. India lacked both these factors in those editions.  Yesterday watching English team fall apart into last 15 over of the South African batting inning and for whatever period they batted was really painful. It is not that I am English cricket fan but for the reason that when you sit in a baking bowl at 37.5 degree Celsius with high prices tickets, where only option available to you are soft drink and samosas at an exorbitant price then you believe that ...

Today I passed AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01). I appeared for this examination just to get started. Plan is to appear for next set of examination in near future. I would like to share my experience with all.   I mostly referred to Stephane Maarek's presentation material and practice examinations. Here is the summary of his course content  Region, Availability Zones, Edge Location  IAM Section - Users, Groups, Policies, Permissions, MFA, MFA Options, Access Keys, Options to access AWS EC2 Section - EC2 Instance Types, Security Groups, SSH, EC2 Instance Purchasing option (This section is favourite in examination) EC2 Instance Storage Section - EBS Volume, EBS Snapshots, AMI Overview, EC2 Instance Store, EFS, EBS Vs EFS, EFS infrequent Access, Amazon EFX Elastic Load Balancing & Auto Scaling Group - Scalability and high Availability, difference between Horizontal and Vertical scalability, Scale in / Scale Out / Scale Up, Scalability Vs Elasticity, four t...