Welcome to Scotts Cloud Community

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 Welcome to Scott's Cloud Community. This is a new blog is meant to help you learn how to work with AWS technology. I will post developer articles, new content and point out things that the AWS Community should know about. In the past, I had other blogs that focused on other technology that I have worked with during my high tech career. 

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