[nfbcs] Has Anyone Worked With Amazon Web Services?

[Jim Barbour]

I agree with Chris. Also, I would consider AWS to be a rather expensive web server platform. Unless you have sophisticated applications you need to write.  

Jim

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> On Aug 12, 2018, at 11:40 AM, Chris Nestrud via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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