{"id":8,"date":"2018-05-09T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tensigh.de\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2024-10-02T22:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:15:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This website is mostly just a hobby so I can use my AWS skills. Between Dec 2017 and June 2018, I earned two AWS certifications but have yet to land a job where I regularly use AWS. To keep my skills up to date (and just to have fun), I started this site so I can keep current.<\/p>\n<p>Currently this site uses WordPress running on Linux. These are the following AWS services used:<\/p>\n<p>EC2: 1 instance running an Amazon Linux Image<\/p>\n<p>Route53: Single entry for DNS<\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2020-02-29T21:02:17+00:00\">RDS: For the database that WP requires<\/del><\/p>\n<p>RDS was removed because it cost an additional $20 a month and for the low, low volume I have a MySQL instance running on the same server worked out just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Update: As of 2024, AWS now charges for Elastic IP addresses whether the instance is running or not. They used to only charge when the instance is running, so now I don&#8217;t even use an Elastic IP.\u00a0 That means I will sometimes lose connectivity until I can update DNS (I have a blog entry that discusses this in detail).<\/p>\n<p>Also I&#8217;m running a SUPER cheap spot instance (I&#8217;ll do a blog entry about this), so it might stop sometimes. Will have to monitor this as time goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This website is mostly just a hobby so I can use my AWS skills. Between Dec 2017 and June 2018, I earned two AWS certifications but have yet to land a job where I regularly use AWS. To keep my skills up to date (and just to have fun), I started this site so I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":99,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japanobserver.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}