After a series of failures hosting my blogs that ran on my ’experimental’ servers that were always a playground for new and oft-breaking changes, I decided I needed to do something a little bit differnet. After being inspired by the static sites of some people at work, I decided I wanted to give Jekyll a go and see what I thought. Having recently had a great interest in learning about AWS, I decided to use exclusively AWS services for the automatic build and deploy of the site as well as the hosting.