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Steve DelGuercio
I build cloud-native systems on AWS.

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer by day - geeking out on AWS on the cheap by night. I build & ship small serverless projects to learn services properly and see how far I can stretch the free tier before anything actually costs real money.

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Active projects02
Monthly infra cost< $1
Visitors (live)loading…
Preferred patternserverless

Projects

Serverless URL Shortener
~$0.10/mo

Paste in a long URL, get back a short link on a custom domain - redirects handled entirely by Lambda. Built mostly to learn API Gateway custom domains and Route 53 end-to-end.

S3CloudFrontLambda API GatewayDynamoDBRoute 53 ACMIAM
Visitor Counter
~$0.05/mo

That live number in the console panel above is this project - a Lambda + DynamoDB counter that increments on every page load, no servers to manage.

LambdaAPI GatewayDynamoDB S3CloudFrontIAM
Serverless Task Manager
Coming soon

Full-stack task manager with auth, a REST API, and a small frontend - next up on the build list.

S3CloudFrontLambda API GatewayDynamoDBCognito
Next Up
Ideas

Containerized workloads on ECS, an event-driven pipeline or two, and whatever else I end up digging into. This slot grows as new projects ship.

ECSEventBridgemore TBD

Stack

Compute
Lambda, EC2, ECS, Fargate
Data
DynamoDB, S3, RDS
Delivery
API Gateway, CloudFront, Route 53, ACM
Ops
IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Systems Manager

About

Steve DelGuercio is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys building, testing, and breaking things in AWS outside of his day job.

The goal with the projects here is simple: build practical AWS solutions using solid architecture and security best practices while keeping the cost as close to $0 as possible. That usually means leaning heavily on the AWS Free Tier, serverless services, automation, aggressive cleanup, and anything else that keeps AWS footing most of the bill.

It's equal parts hands-on learning, experimentation, and an excuse to geek out on AWS without needing a change ticket!

2026-06 LEARN scoping out Cognito auth patterns for the upcoming task manager build
2026-05 DEPLOY shipped URL shortener + custom domain
2026-04 DEPLOY shipped visitor counter widget
2026-03 SETUP wired up GitHub Actions for auto-deploys
2026-02 SETUP stood up portfolio site on S3 + CloudFront