Building the Foundation: Why AWS is the Backbone of ibbe learn

I’ve always felt a bit restless when things are standing still, so diving into the infrastructure for learn.ibbe.in was the perfect outlet for that energy. When we started planning the build log, the first big hurdle was deciding where the entire ecosystem would live. I spent a lot of time weighing Google Cloud Platform against AWS, even putting together detailed comparisons to see which would actually serve our vision for an educational platform that builds real creators. While GCP has its perks, we ultimately landed on AWS because of the sheer variety of services available. It felt like the right move to have everything from our compute power to our mailing systems under one hood rather than duct-taping different providers together.

The "all-in-one" ecosystem of AWS is what really sold me. When you’re building something as multi-faceted as this, you want a tech stack that’s affordable but also something you’re proud to present. Getting our Amazon SES production access approved recently was a huge win, and it solidified the idea that keeping our infrastructure unified makes scaling much less of a headache. Instead of jumping between different dashboards and billing cycles, we can focus on the actual product sense—ensuring the intersection of tech and education feels seamless for the user.

Moving forward, the goal is to keep things lean but powerful. Now that the AWS credits are active, the playground is open. I’m sticking with the philosophy that the tech should never embarrass the consumer, regardless of how much we scale. We’re building this to be an insanely simple yet robust environment where the infrastructure just works in the background, letting the creativity of the builders take center stage. This is just the start of the log, and I’m hyped to keep iterating until the June launch.