https://samueltillman.com/series/building-aws-in-public/Recent content in Building AWS in Public on Samuel TillmanHugoen-usMon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://samueltillman.com/posts/refplatform/building-an-aws-eks-platform-in-public/Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://samueltillman.com/posts/refplatform/building-an-aws-eks-platform-in-public/<p>Most public AWS examples are fragments. One account, one purpose, and, if you read closely, a quiet dependency on a stored credential or some prerequisite a human built by hand and never wrote down. They teach you the shape of a resource, not the shape of a system.</p> <p>I wanted the other thing. So I&rsquo;ve been building a complete AWS organization in the open: multiple accounts, an internal developer platform on Kubernetes, and a realistic demo workload, a fictional fishing-charter booking SaaS, because &ldquo;hello world&rdquo; doesn&rsquo;t have a database, a queue, and async jobs. It&rsquo;s MIT-licensed, it lives on GitHub, and the whole point is that you can fork it, set your variables, and stand up your own.</p>