Nasir Powell | AWS Cloud Resume

About

Focused on reliable, secure cloud solutions.

Based in New York, I am developing my AWS cloud engineering foundation with hands-on work in networking, compute, storage, automation, and deployment workflows. I bring prior IT experience in networking and coding and continue to build projects that demonstrate what I learn.

Skills in progress

AWS and technical focus

Projects

Hands-on cloud work

AWS Cloud Resume

Built and deployed this secure static resume website using Amazon S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and AWS Certificate Manager. Updates are version-controlled in GitHub and automatically deployed through GitHub Actions using AWS IAM OpenID Connect (OIDC).

Rich Rome Apparel

Building the cloud foundation for an Italy-based apparel brand, including a private Amazon S3 website bucket, GitHub Actions deployment pipeline, custom-domain DNS validation, and planned HTTPS hosting.

Learning progress

AWS hands-on training

Configured a multi-tier Amazon VPC with public subnets, route tables, internet and NAT gateways, security groups, network ACLs, and a jump host.
Reviewed EC2 access methods, instance types, EBS volume types, instance store volumes, network architecture, DNS, and manual WordPress installation.
Created an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), launched EC2 instances from the image, and reviewed EC2 purchasing options for workload and cost considerations.
Configured AWS Certificate Manager DNS validation for the Rich Rome Apparel custom domain in preparation for CloudFront HTTPS hosting.
Configured a custom domain for this portfolio with Amazon Route 53, AWS Certificate Manager DNS validation, and Amazon CloudFront for HTTPS delivery.
Continuing to build AWS CloudFormation skills for repeatable infrastructure deployments.

Professional development

Coursera specializations

Completed January 2024

Developing Applications on AWS Specialization
DevOps on AWS Specialization
AWS Fundamentals Specialization