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On Facing Death, 7 Years Later

On Facing Death, 7 Years Later

Posted on December 7, 2018December 23, 2021Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Health, Lifestyle, Tech, Top Posts22 Replies

On December 7th, 2011, my family woke up before dawn and began getting ready to step out into the darkness.  My father, my mother, and I rode in relative silence on the 30 minute drive to Baltimore from our house.  Usually, there is traffic, but so early in the morning, there were barely any cars…

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Revisiting My University | Fear the Turtle!

Revisiting My University | Fear the Turtle!

Posted on September 26, 2018July 22, 2020Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Lifestyle, Tech2 Replies

Few weeks ago, after my AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam, my boyfriend and I decided to go visit our old stomping ground: University of Maryland.  I attended the university for 6 years, getting my bachelor’s and my master’s, and he was there for 4 years, getting his bachelors.  While we had very different experiences (he…

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How I became an #AWSCertified Cloud Practitioner in 2 weeks

How I became an #AWSCertified Cloud Practitioner in 2 weeks

Posted on September 12, 2018April 7, 2025Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Lifestyle, Tech1 Reply

How I passed the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam after 2 weeks of studying.

AWS Summit NYC 2018: What’s in a Cloud?

AWS Summit NYC 2018: What’s in a Cloud?

Posted on July 25, 2018July 22, 2020Author Hiroko NishimuraPosted in Lifestyle, Tech3 Replies

Last week, I attended AWS Summit NYC 2018 at Javits Center in New York City.  While I’ve attended tech conferences in the past, this was the first technical industry-driven conference.  AWS Summits happen all over the world, and are free to attend! What’s AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform.  Amazon launched the…

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Hiroko Nishimura is an AWS Community Hero, technical instructor at LinkedIn Learning, and author of AWS for Non-Engineers.

She writes about her jarring transition to motherhood on Substack. Many posts are reposted on this blog as well under Tag: Substack. Looking for my Japanese posts?

She is a brain injury and brain surgery survivor, writing about dealing with adult Executive Dysfunction/ADHD.

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