This week blog post, I dove deep into the world of infrastructure automation for launching a Minimum Viable Product Application, specifically focusing on building custom AMIs with Packer. I successfully automated the release of new versions by applying semantic versioning and also automated the configuration of my AMIs with pre-installed softwares such as Nginx, Gunicorn, PostgreSQL and Python Virtual Environment for Django Framework using Bash scripting, streamlining my infrastructure setup process.

In this post, we’ll explore how to secure and optimize cloud infrastructure,which can help organizations build a Robust, Secure, and Scalable cloud environment by leveraging powerful tools like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Resource Access Manager (RAM). We’ll also discuss how this project take a step further by combining VPC & RAM to ensure business-critical applications are secured and inaccessible from the public internet while minimizing cost by sharing resources with other multi-accounts created by Control Tower.

In this episode, I’ll walk you through how I built my tech blog infrastructure using Hugo as my build tool while combining it with some Cloud Native Services, evolving from a basic console setup to a fully automated, secure platform. If you’re looking to create a similar setup, here’s what I learned along the way.

Let me share my experience implementing AWS Control Tower to establish a secure and compliant multi-account AWS environment. If you’re looking to set up proper workload isolation and centralized management, this guide will walk you through the key components.