Week 3 Worklog

Week 3 Objectives:

  • Discover AWS Operations and Serverless tools.
  • Finalize core APIs and integrate Frontend with Backend.

Detailed implementation tasks:

Day Date Tasks References
Mon 15/06/2026 - Serverless Automation with AWS Lambda, Advanced Monitoring with CloudWatch and Grafana.
- Integrate API Gateway for attendance session listing APIs.		 https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
Tue 16/06/2026 - Advanced CloudWatch Workshop, Resource Organization with Tags and Resource Groups.
- Build QR scan feature on the Frontend (React).		 https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
Wed 17/06/2026 - Systems Management with AWS Systems Manager, Remote access with Session Manager.
- Connect Frontend to Backend attendance APIs.		 https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
Thu 18/06/2026 - Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK Basics and Advanced.
- Refactor Lambda APIs for better scalability.		 https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
Fri 19/06/2026 - Infrastructure as Code Workshop, EC2 Resource Optimization.
- Write basic Unit tests for Backend services.		 https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/

Week 3 Achievements:

  • AWS Knowledge: Successfully practiced writing Serverless Lambda functions connected via API Gateway. Understood and used Systems Manager for secure EC2 remote access without opening SSH ports, wrote CloudFormation templates, and experienced infrastructure deployment using AWS CDK.
  • BK-Sync Project: Completed the attendance session listing APIs and configured the QR scanning feature on the frontend interface. The application successfully called APIs from the React frontend to the backend, and some basic Unit Tests were added to ensure API stability.