Working towards AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Building on AWS, automating the rest.

I'm Patryk. I write Python and browser scripts to automate repetitive work, and I'm building my cloud skills hands-on with a series of small, documented AWS projects.

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What I work with

The tools I use day to day while learning and building.

AWS fundamentals

Hosting, storage, networking and access control on the core AWS services.

  • S3
  • EC2
  • IAM
  • VPC
  • CloudFront

Automation

Scripts that replace manual steps, from AWS CLI and boto3 to Tampermonkey userscripts.

  • Python
  • boto3
  • AWS CLI
  • Tampermonkey

Security basics

MFA on every account, an IAM user instead of root for daily work, and a deploy user with least-privilege permissions.

  • IAM
  • MFA
  • Least privilege
  • HTTPS

How this site is served

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Projects

Small, real things I've built while learning. Each one has its own repository with a README and architecture notes.

This portfolio

A hand-written static site (HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript). The S3 bucket stays private and CloudFront serves it over HTTPS using Origin Access Control.

  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • OAC
  • HTTPS
What I learned
  • Why a private bucket behind CloudFront beats public website hosting
  • How caching works and when to invalidate
  • Deploying with the AWS CLI
View source on GitHub

IAM least privilege

A deploy-only IAM user limited to one S3 bucket and one CloudFront distribution, with tests proving that everything else is denied.

  • IAM
  • Policies
  • Least privilege
  • AWS CLI
What I learned
  • IAM denies by default, so a policy only needs to list what is allowed
  • Bucket-level and object-level actions need different resource ARNs
  • Named CLI profiles keep admin and deploy credentials apart
View source on GitHub

AWS account checker

A Python script that connects to AWS with boto3 and reports account identity and EC2 usage.

  • Python
  • boto3
  • IAM
What I learned
  • Calling AWS APIs from Python with boto3
  • Reading the caller identity to confirm which account a script runs against

Ten-project AWS roadmap

Two projects done. Every project is designed to run within the AWS free tier.

  1. Portfolio on S3 and CloudFrontDone
  2. IAM least privilegeDone
  3. Serverless URL shortenerPlanned
  4. Contact form backendPlanned
  5. Automated cost watchdogPlanned
  6. Price tracker with alertsPlanned
  7. Image-processing pipelinePlanned
  8. Monitoring dashboardPlanned
  9. EC2 web app in a custom VPCPlanned
  10. CI/CD pipelinePlanned

Contact

Open to conversations about cloud, automation and junior roles. Email is the quickest way to reach me.

burger.patryk.personal@gmail.com
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