https://jaimeelso.com/ Portfolio and blog of Jaime Elso, an AWS Solutions Architect, covering cloud architecture, DevOps automation, and web development projects built on AWS. en-us Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://jaimeelso.com/post/zero-trust-architecture-for-ecs https://jaimeelso.com/post/zero-trust-architecture-for-ecs Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A practical guide to designing a Zero Trust architecture for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on AWS, covering identity, network and workload security. https://jaimeelso.com/post/aws-ec2-remote-connection-methods https://jaimeelso.com/post/aws-ec2-remote-connection-methods Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Methods for remote connection to EC2 Linux instances on AWS, comparing and adopting best practices for secure and efficient management of cloud infrastructure https://jaimeelso.com/post/bachelorsthesis https://jaimeelso.com/post/bachelorsthesis Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT Bachelor's thesis on Block Manager, a custom CMS built with Electron and NodeJS that generates static HTML, benchmarked against WordPress using Lighthouse. https://jaimeelso.com/post/automated-deployment-static-web-pages-aws https://jaimeelso.com/post/automated-deployment-static-web-pages-aws Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Learn how to automatically deploy a static website from an AWS CodeCommit repo to an S3 bucket using a Lambda function, with CloudFront caching and SNS alerts. https://jaimeelso.com/post/automating-cloudformation-stack-deployment https://jaimeelso.com/post/automating-cloudformation-stack-deployment Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT How I automated AWS CloudFormation stack deployments from CodeCommit using CodePipeline, with Change Sets, S3 lifecycle rules, and pipeline notifications. https://jaimeelso.com/post/iac-cloudformation https://jaimeelso.com/post/iac-cloudformation Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT How I define my AWS infrastructure as code with CloudFormation templates in YAML, structuring separate stacks for MyWebsite and its ContactForm service. https://jaimeelso.com/post/contact-form-aws https://jaimeelso.com/post/contact-form-aws Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT Build a secure, serverless contact form on AWS using API Gateway, Lambda, and SNS, now protected by Cloudflare Turnstile and a honeypot field, with email notifications for every submission. https://jaimeelso.com/post/mywebsite https://jaimeelso.com/post/mywebsite Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT How I built my personal website with vanilla HTML, CSS and JS: structure, design choices, a serverless contact form, and performance and SEO practices.