Amazon Web Services for humans

Courses for busy developers who are getting things done.

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Onboarding AWS

Beginner

See what it looks like to move a server into AWS and use AWS's managed database (RDS) and cache (ElastiCache).

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VPC Basics

Intermediate

Dig into AWS's private networks - fundamental knowledge you'll take with you everywhere in AWS.

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Terraform Starter

Advanced

Become a power user - start using Infrastructure as Code to define and create your AWS resources.

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Making Sense of AWS

Skip past the huge list of AWS services, run past the certification rat-race, and learn how to run your applications on AWS.

Cut to the Chase: The AWS docs create more questions than they answer. Learn exactly what you need to know while staying productive.
What Services to Use: We cover the best parts of AWS. Learn what services to use and which to ignore. Leverage managed services that make sense.
Stop Getting Lost in the Console: Infrastructure as Code is extremely powerful. Create, tweak, track, and manage your infrastructure with our usable, specific examples.
Managing Cost: Learn how to expertly track costs and set billing alarms. Avoid unexpected bills and leverage lesser-known AWS tricks to reduce costs.

Infrastructure as Code

It's too hard to remember what you configured in the web console. Worse still, the web console hides important configuration from you.

Putting your infrastructure into code lets you automate your infrastructure. You can track it, view changes, reference it for later, duplicate it, and much more.

Infrastructure as Code is too important to ignore. Learn it here.