Open to cloud and AI engineering roles — UK / remote
Levis Makurumure
AWS Cloud • AI Engineering • Systems Design
Learning cloud architecture
by building real systems.
A working record of what I build on AWS and why — the architecture decisions, the alternatives I rejected, the trade-offs I accepted, and the things I got wrong. Documented as I go, not written up afterwards.
- Decision records
- Hands-on AWS
- Security conscious
- Cost aware
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View all activity- BUILD S3 static hosting behind CloudFront
The first deployment of this platform onto AWS — a private S3 bucket served through CloudFront over HTTPS.
27 July 2026 - LEARNING AWS account setup: budgets, MFA and the free-tier trap
The cost and security groundwork done before provisioning anything billable — budgets vs Cost Explorer, why MFA matters most on root, and what the free tier does not protect you from.
27 July 2026 - JOURNAL Starting the platform in public
Why the record is written in the session the decision is made, before anyone knows whether it was right.
22 July 2026 - LEARNING Static builds and why they map onto S3
Understanding the build artefact before deploying it, so the deployment step teaches deployment rather than refactoring.
22 July 2026
I would rather explain why I rejected an approach than list what I built. The reasoning is the skill — and it is the part that transfers.
— Levis Makurumure