In this series of blog posts I will describe the journey (or one of the possible ways) of building a comprehensive observability solution for AWS and on-prem workloads. I will provide a step by step guide and how the decisions were made for choosing or not the particular technologies (observability stacks or whatever you call it). I will try to provide as much as possible examples and code snippets. So lets start. First let say a few words about the initial state and the goals that I have to achieve with this solution.

When I decided to build my own site, I knew I wanted something fast, scalable, and modern — not just in terms of the tech stack, but also in the way it’s managed and deployed. This post walks you through exactly how my site (Cloudy Mountains) is deployed using Hugo, AWS (S3 + CloudFront), Terraform, GitHub Actions, and OIDC authentication. I’ll show you the challenges that I had and how to solve them properly.