AWS Cookbook

Preface

The vast majority of workloads will go to the cloud. We’re just at the beginning—there’s so much more to happen.

Andy Jassy

Cloud usage has been gaining traction with enterprises and small businesses over the last decade and continues to accelerate. Gartner said the worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud services market grew 40.7% in 2020. The rapid growth of the cloud has led to a huge demand for cloud skills by many organizations. Many IT professionals understand the basic concepts of the cloud but want to become more comfortable working in the cloud. This gap between the supply and demand of cloud skills presents a significant opportunity for individuals to level up their career.

Through our combined 20+ years of cloud experience, we have had the benefit of working on Amazon Web Services (AWS) projects in many different roles. We have provided guidance to hundreds of developers on how and when to use AWS services. This has allowed us to understand the common challenges and easy wins of the cloud. We would like to share these lessons with you and give you a leg up for your own advancement. We wrote this book to share some of our knowledge and enable you to quickly acquire useful skills for working in the cloud. We hope that you will find yourself using this book as reference material for many years to come.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers, engineers, and architects of all levels, from beginner to expert. Beginners will learn cloud ...