[nfbcs] Has Anyone Worked With Amazon Web Services?

Chris Nestrud ccn at chrisnestrud.com
Sun Aug 12 18:40:52 UTC 2018


AWS console is pretty annoying from an accessibility standpoint. I'd
recommend  using a CLI for managing resources such as the script at

https://github.com/timkay/aws/

Chris

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 01:33:59PM -0500, Peter Donahue via nfbcs wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> 	We're considering creating new Websites in the cloud and using
> Amazon Web Services to host them. I'd be curious to know if anyone has
> worked with Amazon Web Services to learn what accessibility issues you
> needed to address as well as working with the various interfaces.
> Bookshare.org has a number of books concerning the construction and hosting
> of Websites and cloud applications using the AWS Platform. I'll look forward
> to hearing about your experiences with working with AWS.
>  Peter Donahue
> 
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> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] The Future of Technology: A Journey
> 
> This is always an interesting subject. I think I may have taken a bit of a
> different route than most people. When I got out of high school I wanted to
> major in some kind of music degree so that I could run my own studio and
> teach guitar. After getting a two year associates degree, I did not go back
> to school anymore because it was just way too expensive. So after that I
> made a little bit of money running my own studio but I never pushed it
> really hard. After a few years of doing this I got bored and tried to get a
> normal office job. But since my degree was in music, not many people would
> consider hiring me because I had no degree in whatever I was pursuing to be
> hired for. I tried to get a job at Verizon has a call center representative
> and failed miserably on the phone interview because it was my first
> interview and I was pretty nervous. Looking back however, I am extremely
> glad that I did not get that job. I would not have been happy sitting in an
> office and talking on the phone with people all day. During this time I also
> took a few Internet marketing courses and learn how to build a basic
> website. When things really turned around for me was when I went to learn to
> tune and rebuild pianos in Vancouver Washington. The school has since closed
> however but what I learned there was extremely valuable to running my own
> business. If I could go back 10 years ago I would have went to that school
> much sooner because I enjoy working with pianos. Now I run my own piano
> tuning and repair business as well as teach lessons. I love it because it
> gives me something different to do every day instead of just sitting in an
> office. So if anyone is thinking about starting their own business I would
> certainly do it but also realize that it does take time to get going just
> like anything else. It can be easy to get discouraged and stop pursuing your
> own business when you are not making money, but if you have found a good
> business to pursue then do it no matter what.To me, it is far more rewarding
> than having a normal office job.
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