AWS
Amazon Web Services — NestJS microservices at Detecta, self-terminating EC2 Spot research jobs, and the AWS Cloud Practitioner credential.
Amazon Web Services is the largest public cloud, covering compute, storage, databases, networking and managed services.
How I use it
- Detecta Security Platform — NestJS microservices on AWS behind a Firebase-backed, triple-platform product, at Detecta.
- Real-time Data Systems — heavy batch research runs as self-terminating jobs on EC2 Spot instances: code and results move through S3, secrets come from SSM, and every job has a hard time cap so a forgotten instance can't keep billing. The same research line covers Reinforcement Learning and Evolution Strategies experiments.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner — certified in May 2024, covering AWS core services, security, pricing and the shared responsibility model.
Why it matters
Microservices let a platform with several client apps evolve its backend pieces independently, while a managed BaaS like Firebase handles auth and realtime data. Spot instances make large research batches cheap, as long as jobs are built to stop themselves. Knowing where each fits is the practical core of the certification.
AWS sits in my cloud toolkit next to GCP and Vercel; I pick the platform per product rather than defaulting to one.