https://digitalden.cloud/AWS Documentation and More 2026-06-08T10:30:08+01:00 Deniz Yilmaz https://digitalden.cloud/ Jekyll © 2026 Deniz Yilmaz /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-06-02T18:00:00+01:00 2026-06-02T18:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/translating-youtube-subtitles-aws-transcribe-bedrock/ Deniz Yilmaz

Transcribing audio to a synced SRT with Amazon Transcribe, then translating it to Turkish with Claude on Bedrock, with a local ffmpeg step to burn the result into the video.

2026-05-11T00:00:00+01:00 2026-05-31T21:35:14+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/the-four-domain-portfolio/ Deniz Yilmaz

Restructuring my fragmented digital footprint into a strict four domain portfolio that separates cloud engineering, personal logs, recipe builds, and cinematic media.

2026-04-25T00:00:00+01:00 2026-05-20T12:56:10+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/how-my-domain-got-hijacked-through-a-dangling-dns/ Deniz Yilmaz

I made a GitHub repo private and within 12 hours an automated bot took over my domain and was serving gambling spam to Google's crawler. Here is how dangling DNS works, what the attacker actually did, and the cleanup playbook I ran to shut it down.

2026-04-15T14:00:00+01:00 2026-04-15T14:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/extending-agents-with-aws-lambda-and-step-functions/ Deniz Yilmaz

Learn how to extend AI agents with AWS Lambda and Step Functions to perform real-world actions, integrate external systems, and orchestrate complex workflows.

2026-04-13T00:00:00+01:00 2026-05-20T12:47:01+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/vertex-ai-search-vs-rag-engine/ Deniz Yilmaz

Comparing three grounding methods on Google Cloud using my own blog posts. Vertex AI Search, RAG Engine, and Google Search grounding. What worked, what broke, and what surprised me.

2026-02-21T18:00:00+00:00 2026-05-20T12:47:01+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/extracting-a-recipe-from-youtube-with-aws-transcribe/ Deniz Yilmaz

A bash script that downloads audio from YouTube, uploads it to S3, runs an Amazon Transcribe job, and outputs a plain text transcript.

2026-02-10T08:00:00+00:00 2026-02-26T14:30:20+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/getting-started-with-google-cloud/ Deniz Yilmaz

After 40+ AWS lessons and 7 certifications, I'm creating my first Google Cloud course. This post documents everything I learned setting up my Google Cloud environment, from account creation to IAM configuration, through the lens of an AWS engineer discovering a new cloud.

2026-01-18T10:00:00+00:00 2026-02-02T11:25:12+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/tracking-amazon-bedrock-agent-costs-wit-allocation-tags-for-bedrock-agents/ Deniz Yilmaz

How to track project costs for Bedrock Agents using AWS Budgets. Covers the limitation with on-demand model tagging and the solution using Application Inference Profiles.

2026-01-13T13:00:00+00:00 2026-06-08T10:29:11+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/introduction-to-agentic-ai-systems-on-aws/ Deniz Yilmaz

Learn what makes AI systems agentic and how to design autonomous AI architectures on AWS using Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, Step Functions, and persistent memory services.

2026-01-11T13:00:00+00:00 2026-02-02T12:20:35+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/protecting-api-gateway-endpoints/ Deniz Yilmaz

Protect public API Gateway endpoints from abuse using usage plans and budget alerts. This post covers practical strategies to limit requests, monitor costs, and explores when AWS WAF or authentication might be needed.

2026-01-02T12:00:00+00:00 2026-01-02T12:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/adding-observability-to-my-bedrock-agent/ Deniz Yilmaz

After launching my first Bedrock agent, I wanted to add proper observability. This post documents how I added API Gateway access logs, CloudWatch Logs Insights, and DynamoDB for conversation storage to debug issues, monitor performance, and understand usage patterns.

2025-12-30T13:00:00+00:00 2026-01-02T19:26:42+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/building-a-bedrock-agent-with-aws-news-search/ Deniz Yilmaz

Build an Amazon Bedrock agent that queries the AWS News Blog RSS feed and answers questions about recent AWS announcements. Use Lambda action groups to fetch and parse the feed, expose the agent through Amazon API Gateway, and provide a terminal-style web UI.

2025-12-23T18:00:00+00:00 2025-12-23T18:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/aws-console-demos-with-camtasia-and-after-effects-for-youtube/ Deniz Yilmaz

A workflow for recording AWS Console demos and exporting 4K video for YouTube. Compares Dell 4K and Apple Studio Display setups.

2025-12-14T08:00:00+00:00 2026-01-02T19:26:42+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/building-my-first-bedrock-agent/ Deniz Yilmaz

This is the story of an agent. What began as a simple Amazon Bedrock agent demo evolved into a real, production agent running on my own website. It connects my documentation, notes, and projects into a single conversational interface. This started as a small experiment. Then it became a website feature. Now it feels like something bigger. v1.0 is just the beginning.

2025-12-12T08:00:00+00:00 2025-12-12T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/fixing-rss-feed-limits-in-jekyll-chirpy/ Deniz Yilmaz

How to customize the RSS feed in Jekyll Chirpy. The theme limits feeds to 5 posts and truncates summaries to 400 characters by default, which works for typical blogs but not for AI agents or integrations that need full content. The solution: override the feed template and use the description field in front matter for full control.

2025-11-05T08:00:00+00:00 2025-11-05T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/automating-cost-and-sustainability-optimization-in-aws/ Deniz Yilmaz

Implement proactive cost control and environmental efficiency in your AWS environments through automation and data-driven optimization. Through 4 lessons, this course will show you how to leverage AWS tools and automation to identify waste, right-size resources, monitor sustainability impact, and enforce cost governance policies across your infrastructure.

2025-07-31T08:00:00+01:00 2025-07-31T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/cost-and-sustainability-optimization-for-aws-storage-and-databases/ Deniz Yilmaz

Build cloud architectures that are efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally conscious. Through 4 lessons, 1 lab, and 1 hands-on demo, this course will show you how to optimize AWS storage and database services with the right configurations and automation, helping you reduce costs, improve performance, and support long-term sustainability.

2025-07-21T08:00:00+01:00 2025-07-21T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/aws-non-relational-databases/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn about AWS Non-Relational Database services and how they can be used to store, retrieve, and manage various types of data without requiring a fixed schema. These purpose-built database services are designed to address specific use cases and workloads that traditional relational databases are not optimized to handle.

2025-06-11T08:00:00+01:00 2025-06-11T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/aws-relational-databases/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson you will explore relational database principles, learn about AWS relational database services like Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, examine their performance and scalability features, and see a hands-on demonstration of creating an Amazon RDS MySQL database with a multi-AZ DB cluster.

2025-04-23T14:00:00+01:00 2026-05-21T07:08:31+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/serverless-etl-pipeline-for-weather-data/ Deniz Yilmaz

Build a serverless weather ETL pipeline on AWS. Lambda ingests OpenWeatherMap data, Kinesis Data Firehose partitions it into an S3 data lake, Glue catalogs and transforms it, and Aurora Serverless v2 stores the result. EventBridge schedules the whole thing.

2025-04-23T08:00:00+01:00 2025-04-23T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/deployment-orchestration-with-elastic-beanstalk/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn about the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service and how it can be used to help you deploy and scale your applications and services with ease and without you having to worry about provisioning components and implementing high availability features such as elastic load balancing and auto-scaling. All of this and more is managed and handled by Elastic Beanstalk, and this lesson is designed to take you through those features.

2025-02-05T08:00:00+00:00 2026-05-31T21:35:14+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/build-serverless-contact-forms-with-generative-ai/ Deniz Yilmaz

Learn how to create a serverless backend with generative AI integration for contact forms using AWS Lambda. This solution: Handles form submissions from your website using AWS Lambda Creates AI-generated content using Amazon Bedrock (like unique greetings or creative messages) Sends email notifications via Amazon Simple Email Service to website owners, and form submitters

2025-01-28T08:00:00+00:00 2025-01-28T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/managing-database-access-permissions-in-aws/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn how to secure and manage database access using various authentication mechanisms, access control practices, encryption methods, and monitoring tools provided by AWS.

2025-01-16T08:00:00+00:00 2025-01-16T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/training-and-fine-tuning-machine-learning-and-foundation-models-with-amazon-sagemaker/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn about the training stage of the machine learning lifecycle using Amazon SageMaker.

2024-11-22T08:00:00+00:00 2024-11-22T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/configuring-and-launching-hyperparameter-tuning-jobs-with-amazon-sageMaker-amt/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn how to optimize machine learning models using Amazon SageMaker’s Automatic Model Tuning or AMT for hyperparameter tuning. You will work with SageMaker to automatically find the best combination of hyperparameters to improve model performance.

2024-11-19T08:00:00+00:00 2024-11-19T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/monitoring-model-inference-with-amazon-sagemaker/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will explore how to effectively track and maintain the performance of your deployed machine learning models. You will learn about tools and techniques to ensure your models continue to deliver accurate predictions in real-world scenarios.

2024-11-12T08:00:00+00:00 2024-11-12T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/optimize-machine-learning-models-for-inference-with-sagemaker-neo/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to this lesson on Amazon SageMaker Neo, a capability that optimizes machine learning models for inference on cloud and edge devices.

2024-10-30T08:00:00+00:00 2024-10-30T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/extracting-text-handwriting-and-layout-elements-using-amazon-textract/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to this lesson on using Amazon Textract, a cloud-based service that automates text and data extraction from printed text, handwriting, layout elements and data from any document.

2024-10-30T08:00:00+00:00 2024-10-30T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/monitoring-and-analyzing-data-quality-for-xgboost-churn-models-with-amazon-sagemaker-model-monitor/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor to track and analyze the performance of a deployed machine learning model in real-time.

2024-10-24T08:00:00+01:00 2024-10-24T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/using-amazon-lex-to-create-conversational-ai-interfaces/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to Using Amazon Lex to Create Conversational AI Interfaces.

2024-10-21T08:00:00+01:00 2024-10-21T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/getting-started-with-amazon-bedrock/ Deniz Yilmaz

In this lesson, you will explore Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service in AWS’s generative AI layer. You will learn about its core concepts, capabilities, and how to interact with it using the Bedrock Playground, AWS CLI, and SDKs.

2024-10-08T08:00:00+01:00 2024-10-08T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/detecting-abnormal-operating-patterns-using-amazon-devops-guru/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to this lesson on detecting abnormal operating patterns using Amazon DevOps Guru.

2024-09-12T08:00:00+01:00 2026-05-31T21:35:14+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/build-genai-integrated-serverless-contact-forms-for-static-websites-with-aws-lambda-api-gateway-bedrock-and-ses/ Deniz Yilmaz

Build a serverless backend with generative AI capabilities for handling contact forms on static websites. This documentation covers the complete end-to-end solution, covering backend development with AWS services like API Gateway, Lambda, Bedrock, and Simple Email Service, as well as frontend integration with the contact form of a static website.

2024-09-07T08:00:00+01:00 2024-09-07T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/working-with-amazon-rekognition-for-video-and-image-analysis/ Deniz Yilmaz

This lesson looks at Amazon Rekognition, a service that uses generative AI to analyze images and videos enabling developers to add advanced visual analysis capabilities to their applications.

2024-07-30T08:00:00+01:00 2024-07-30T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/implementing-text-to-speech-with-amazon-polly/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to this lesson on leveraging Amazon Polly, a cloud-based text-to-speech service, to create more accessible, engaging, and natural-sounding speech experiences for your applications, websites, and services.

2024-07-16T08:00:00+01:00 2024-07-16T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/running-deep-learning-workloads-with-the-aws-neuron-sdk/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where you’ll learn how to deploy and optimize your deep learning workloads on AWS using deep learning AMIs, Containers, Neuron SDK, and Neuron tools.

2024-06-19T08:00:00+01:00 2024-06-19T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/add-google-analytics-jekyll-chirpy-site/ Deniz Yilmaz

Integrate Google Analytics into your Jekyll Chirpy site to gain insights into your website’s traffic and user behavior. This documentation will walk you through the process of setting up Google Analytics and implementing it in your Jekyll Chirpy site, allowing you to make data-driven decisions to improve your content and user experience.

2024-06-19T08:00:00+01:00 2024-06-19T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/create-fast-loading-images-with-lqip-webp-in-your-jekyll-chirpy-site/ Deniz Yilmaz

This documentation will show you how to implement Low-Quality Image Placeholders (LQIP) in your Jekyll site, enhancing user experience by displaying a low-resolution version of an image while the full-resolution image loads. You’ll also learn how to prepare images specifically for the Chirpy theme and convert them to the efficient WebP format, ensuring optimal display and performance. These techniques can be applied to any Jekyll site, including those using the Chirpy theme, to significantly improve loading times and overall site performance.

2024-06-14T08:00:00+01:00 2024-06-14T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/amazon-sagemaker-machine-learning-workflows/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where you’re going to learn about Machine Learning Operations or MLOPs with Amazon SageMaker’s fully managed workflow service.

2024-05-22T08:00:00+01:00 2024-05-22T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/aws-security-best-practices-for-developers/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where you’ll learn the industry standard best practices for developers, as stated by the Well Architected framework.

2024-05-10T08:00:00+01:00 2024-05-10T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/scaling-gpus-with-ec2-ultraclusters/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where you’re going to learn about High-Performance Cloud computing with Amazon’s EC2 UltraClusters.

2024-05-03T08:00:00+01:00 2024-05-03T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/setting-up-adobe-creative-cloud-after-effects-on-aws-ec2-with-nvidia-gpus/ Deniz Yilmaz

Learn how to set up an optimized environment for Adobe Creative Cloud and After Effects on an AWS EC2 Instance equipped with powerful NVIDIA GPUs. Explore two different methods:

2024-04-29T08:00:00+01:00 2024-04-29T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/create-web-applications-using-aws-amplify/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where we’ll explore what AWS Amplify is and the key services and features it provides to help you build and deploy your web applications. We will specifically walk through creating a Note Keeper app using React, demonstrating how Amplify simplifies the setup of essential services like authentication, data storage, and backend integration.

2024-04-11T08:00:00+01:00 2024-04-11T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/animating-the-cloud/ Deniz Yilmaz

I’ve always been intrigued by the creative side of technology, particularly the animation capabilities of Adobe After Effects, a digital visual effects and motion graphics application widely used in the post-production process of film making, video games, and television production.

2024-04-03T08:00:00+01:00 2024-04-03T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/high-performance-text-analysis-with-huggingface-gpt-2-on-aws-neuron-with-aws-inferentia/ Deniz Yilmaz

Welcome to QA’s lesson where you’ll learn how to utilize the AWS deep learning AMI with the Neuron SDK and PyTorch on AWS Inferentia to compile and execute the HuggingFace GPT-2 model.

2024-03-26T08:00:00+00:00 2024-03-26T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/set-up-and-deploy-a-documentation-site-with-jekyll-and-chirpy-on-aws-cloud9/ Deniz Yilmaz

This documentation outlines the steps for setting up and deploying a documentation site using Jekyll, a popular static site generator, and the Chirpy theme using GitHub Actions on AWS Cloud9 IDE. It includes instructions for configuring a custom subdomain, such as https://docs.example.com, through AWS Route 53 and integrating it with GitHub Pages. Objectives

2024-02-21T08:00:00+00:00 2024-02-21T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/building-and-running-serverless-applications-using-the-sam-cli/ Deniz Yilmaz

Lesson Description Welcome to QA’s lesson which will give you an understanding of building and running serverless application using the SAM CLI.

2024-02-18T08:00:00+00:00 2024-02-18T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/particles-js-integration-tutorial-html5up-site-template/ Deniz Yilmaz

This tutorial shows you how to integrate particles.js into the HTML5Up Dimensions site template, while also addressing CSS conflicts and layering issues that occur.

2024-01-28T08:00:00+00:00 2024-01-28T08:00:00+00:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/creating-terraform-module-s3-remote-backend/ Deniz Yilmaz

Create a Terraform module that provisions an S3 bucket to store the terraform.tfstate file and a DynamoDB table to lock the state file to prevent concurrent modifications and state corruption.

2023-10-05T08:00:00+01:00 2023-10-05T08:00:00+01:00 https://digitalden.cloud/posts/terraform-remote-backend-bash-script/ Deniz Yilmaz

When it comes to managing Terraform state on AWS, it often feels like a chicken-and-egg problem. While Terraform allows you to define and deploy your infrastructure as code, configuring the remote backend can present a challenge. There are various methods to achieve this goal, each with its unique nuances and complexities.