LEARNING IN PUBLIC · CLOUD OPERATIONS

Christopher Colosimo

Student learning AWS, Linux, and Terraform, working toward an entry-level Cloud Operations role.

ABOUT

Early in my Cloud journey

I’m an IT student learning how to run things in the cloud: AWS, Terraform, monitoring, and basic automation. My short-term goal is to land an entry-level Cloud Operations role and keep building from there.

Most of my learning comes from small labs where I set things up, break them on purpose, and document what I did to fix them.

AWS · Terraform · CloudWatch Linux & Bash Monitoring & incidents
  • Right now: Terraform, multi-environment setups, RDS/EC2 hardening, better monitoring
  • Goal: Entry-level role in Cloud Operations where I can keep learning on real systems

PROJECTS

WORK IN PROGRESS

AWS CloudWatch Monitoring

REPOSITORY

A small 3-tier web app built directly in the AWS console with CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and simple runbooks.

EC2 · RDS · ALB CloudWatch Runbooks

AWS Incident Response Lab

REPOSITORY

Intentional break/fix scenarios where I cause problems on purpose and practice finding the issue, fixing it, and writing up what happened.

Troubleshooting CloudWatch alarms Post-incident notes

AWS Terraform Infrastructure

REPOSITORY

Terraform version of my monitoring project: modules, remote state, dev/prod environments, Secrets Manager, and basic RDS hardening.

Terraform S3 + DynamoDB state Secrets Manager RDS
This page is a simple starting point. I’ll update it as I finish more labs and learn new tools.