Week 7 Worklog

πŸš€ Rookwork Project Start: From Week 7 (27/05/2026), alongside deep-diving into AWS services, the Rookwork project β€” a multi-platform team collaboration management system β€” officially began development.

Week 7 Objectives:

  • Learn AWS IoT Core: device connection, MQTT protocol, topics, and rules.
  • Understand how to ingest sensor data from edge devices into the AWS cloud.
  • Begin Rookwork project development: set up project structure, define modules, and plan system architecture.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

DayTaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- AWS IoT Core overview: device registry, message broker, rules engine
- MQTT protocol: topics, QoS levels, retain messages		27/05/202627/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
3- IoT Core Thing creation and certificates
- Device policies for secure MQTT connection		28/05/202628/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
4- Practice:
  + Create IoT Thing with certificate
  + Simulate device publishing MQTT messages
  + Subscribe to topics in MQTT test client		29/05/202629/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
5- IoT Rules Engine: SQL-like rule queries
- Route messages to S3, Lambda, DynamoDB		30/05/202630/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/
6- Practice:
  + Create IoT rule to forward data to S3
  + Trigger Lambda from IoT rule
  + End-to-end data ingestion test		31/05/202631/05/2026https://cloudjourney.awsstudygroup.com/

Rookwork Project β€” Phase 1: Architecture Design & AWS Infrastructure Setup

DayRookwork TaskStart DateCompletion DateReference Material
2- Design the overall AWS architecture diagram for Rookwork
- Identify required services: EC2, RDS, S3, SES, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53		27/05/202631/05/2026
3- Initialize Amazon VPC: configure Public/Private Subnets, Internet Gateway
- Set up NAT Gateway for Private Subnet outbound traffic		27/05/202631/05/2026
4- Configure AWS IAM: create roles and policies for EC2, RDS, S3
- Set up Security Groups for each tier (ALB, EC2, RDS)		27/05/202631/05/2026
5- Configure Amazon Route 53: register hosted zone, create DNS records
- Set up AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for SSL/TLS		27/05/202631/05/2026
6- Review & finalize Phase 1:
  + Verify all VPC, subnet, and routing table configurations
  + Validate IAM permissions and Security Groups
  + Plan detailed tasks for Phase 2		27/05/202631/05/2026

Week 7 Achievements:

  • Successfully completed: AWS IoT Core overview: device registry, message broker, rules engine

  • Successfully completed: MQTT protocol: topics, QoS levels, retain messages

  • Successfully completed: IoT Core Thing creation and certificates

  • Successfully completed: Device policies for secure MQTT connection

  • Successfully completed: Create IoT Thing with certificate

  • Successfully completed: Simulate device publishing MQTT messages

  • Successfully completed: Subscribe to topics in MQTT test client

  • Successfully completed: IoT Rules Engine: SQL-like rule queries

  • Successfully completed: Route messages to S3, Lambda, DynamoDB

  • Successfully completed: Create IoT rule to forward data to S3

  • Successfully completed: Trigger Lambda from IoT rule

  • Successfully completed: End-to-end data ingestion test

  • [Rookwork] Design the overall AWS architecture diagram for Rookwork

  • [Rookwork] Identify required services: EC2, RDS, S3, SES, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53

  • [Rookwork] Initialize Amazon VPC: configure Public/Private Subnets, Internet Gateway

  • [Rookwork] Set up NAT Gateway for Private Subnet outbound traffic

  • [Rookwork] Configure AWS IAM: create roles and policies for EC2, RDS, S3

  • [Rookwork] Set up Security Groups for each tier (ALB, EC2, RDS)

  • [Rookwork] Configure Amazon Route 53: register hosted zone, create DNS records

  • [Rookwork] Set up AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) for SSL/TLS

  • [Rookwork] Verify all VPC, subnet, and routing table configurations

  • [Rookwork] Validate IAM permissions and Security Groups

  • [Rookwork] Plan detailed tasks for Phase 2