Career Changer Documents Every AWS Serverless Pitfall in Cloud Resume Challenge Build

A former insurance operations professional completed the Cloud Resume Challenge to transition into cloud engineering, building a serverless resume site hosted on AWS. The project uses a private S3 bucket behind CloudFront with Origin Access Control, a Lambda-powered visitor counter backed by DynamoDB, and is fully managed via Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions. During the build, a domain registration failure on Route 53 was traced to a fraud alert triggered by an account upgrade, leaving a support case unresolved for two days. A separate issue arose when an ACM certificate request failed because DNS validation required a Route 53 hosted zone that did not yet exist, creating a dependency deadlock. The developer worked around both blockers by continuing progress on unaffected components and upgrading to a paid support plan to accelerate AWS's response.
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