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Badges, Blogs & Belonging: My 12-Month Sprint to AWS Community Builder 2025
Twelve months ago I hit Publish on my very first AWS blog post. Today I’m writing this as a AWS Community Builder, a member of the AWS Emerging Talent Community. Here’s everything that happened in between and what I learned along the way. April 2024 – “Let’s try this blogging thing” Date Article Views 14 Apr 2024 Serverless Computing and Containers in AWS – a side-by-side comparison of Lambda & Fargate 47 I’d spent weeks tinkering with Lambda function for a university project, and friends kept asking, “When would you ever choose containers instead?” Turning that answer into an article felt terrifying…right up until the moment I pressed Publish. The post didn’t break the internet, but it did break my fear of writing blogs about AWS. Highlight posts Date Article Views 16 Jun 2024 Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments vs Read Replica 376 8 Dec 2024 Connecting AWS RDS to Spring Boot 1 695 Metric snapshot: 13 AWS-focused posts · 4 076 total views · 145 reactions The December post took off after someone shared it in an enterprise Slack channel—proof that depth plus timing can out-perform follower counts. Badges that opened doors (Jun → Nov 2024) Badge Date earned Getting Started with AWS Database Jun 2024 Getting Started with AWS Storage Jul 2024 Getting Started with AWS Compute Nov 2024 In November 2024 an email arrived: “As an AWS Educate badge earner you qualify for the **AWS Emerging Talent Community…” Free certification preparations, career guidance, and earn points by completing content that I can use for rewards in the ETC! The email that changed everything (5 Mar 2025) At 12:39 PM the subject line lit up: “
Twelve months ago I hit Publish on my very first AWS blog post. Today I’m writing this as a AWS Community Builder, a member of the AWS Emerging Talent Community. Here’s everything that happened in between and what I learned along the way.
April 2024 – “Let’s try this blogging thing”
| Date | Article | Views |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Apr 2024 | Serverless Computing and Containers in AWS – a side-by-side comparison of Lambda & Fargate | 47 |
I’d spent weeks tinkering with Lambda function for a university project, and friends kept asking, “When would you ever choose containers instead?” Turning that answer into an article felt terrifying…right up until the moment I pressed Publish. The post didn’t break the internet, but it did break my fear of writing blogs about AWS.
Highlight posts
| Date | Article | Views |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jun 2024 | Amazon RDS Multi-AZ Deployments vs Read Replica | 376 |
| 8 Dec 2024 | Connecting AWS RDS to Spring Boot | 1 695 |
Metric snapshot: 13 AWS-focused posts · 4 076 total views · 145 reactions
The December post took off after someone shared it in an enterprise Slack channel—proof that depth plus timing can out-perform follower counts.
Badges that opened doors (Jun → Nov 2024)
| Badge | Date earned |
|---|---|
| Getting Started with AWS Database | Jun 2024 |
| Getting Started with AWS Storage | Jul 2024 |
| Getting Started with AWS Compute | Nov 2024 |
In November 2024 an email arrived:
“As an AWS Educate badge earner you qualify for the **AWS Emerging Talent Community…”
Free certification preparations, career guidance, and earn points by completing content that I can use for rewards in the ETC!
The email that changed everything (5 Mar 2025)
At 12:39 PM the subject line lit up:
“
