Hosting a Hugo static website in AWS

This post is part of a series about hosting a static website, and I’ll be talking about the infrastructure needed to host the website in AWS, and how to deploy via infrastructure as code (IaC). In this post, we’ll use Terraform to describe the infrastructure we want to deploy

Our infrastructure

I use Hugo to run this blog - it generates static HTML pages based on files written with Markdown which means that I don’t need to worry about running servers. To host this blog, I deploy several resources into an AWS account to host this blog, as shown below:

Creating and validating ACM certificates with Terraform

This post is part of a series about hosting a static website, specifically a Hugo-based blog hosted in AWS but this process is useful anytime we need to create a SSL certificate in Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM).

Using AWS Rekognition to identify race participants

Besides being techy, I dabble in the occasional run at 5k & 10k distances. In many races, photographers capture you, usually in some very un-flattering pose. The problem is that there can be hundreds of photos to check through - sometimes thousands.