Public Cloud Provider. Amazon Web Services

1. Introduction
2. AWS Reference Archigtecture
3. AWS Application Services
4. Blogs
5. AWS Free Resources
6. Containers on AWS
7. AWS Startup Collection. For startups building on AWS
8. AWS on Twitter
9. AWS Youtube channel and Podcasts
10. AWS Developer Blog
11. AWS Patterns
12. AWS configuration files
13. AWS Config Rules
14. AWS Management Console
15. Resource Hierarchies
16. AWS Tags
17. AWS Systems Manager Explorer
    1. AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager
18. AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
19. AWS re:Post
20. Bunch of Images
21. Videos
22. Tweets
23. Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI

Introduction

• AWS Cloud Products
• AWS Local Zones locations
• status.aws.amazon.com: Service Health Dashboard
• aws.amazon.com/new: What’s New with AWS?
• aws.amazon.com/releasenotes
• AWS Forums
• AWS Knowledge Center
• AWS Glossary
• Awesome AWS 🌟
• AWS Marketplace
• AWS Support
• github.com/awslabs
• slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices
• AWS 10-Minute Tutorials
• How do I create and activate a new Amazon Web Services account?
• onlineitguru.com: AWS Services [ARCHIVED]
• The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
• AWS Ramp-Up Guides Your guides to learning the AWS Cloud. Build Your AWS Cloud Knowledge with Ramp-Up Guides.
• serverlessland.com This site brings together all the latest blogs, videos, and training for AWS Serverless. Learn to use and build apps that scale automatically on low-cost, fully-managed serverless architecture.
  • serverlessland.com/patterns: Serverless Patterns Collection Use serverless patterns to quickly build integrations using AWS SAM and CDK templates. Filter by pattern and copy the template directly into your application.
  • AWS SAM Pipelines Video tutorials: Learn how to generate CI/CD pipelines and deployment templates for serverless applications with AWS’ best practices for CloudBees, JenkinsCI, GitLab, GitHub using AWS SAM Pipelines.
• AWS Activate AWS Activate offers startups free tools, resources, and more to quickly get started on AWS. Build and scale with up to $100,000 in AWS Activate credits
• aws/containers-roadmap: AWS Containers Roadmap This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).
• dashbird.io: Get started and keep using AWS for free
• dzone: AWS Basics
• dzone: AWS Basics: Bastion Hosts and NAT we will set up Bastion Host and NAT instances in our VPC. We will learn why we need those and some of the options available to us.
• acloudguru.com: The Cloud Dictionary of Pain: Five Of AWS’s Toughest Cloud Topics
• dannys.cloud: 10 Best Free AWS Learning Resources for Beginners This blogpost provides free resources for beginners to get started with AWS through videos, whitepapers, labs, and certification guides.
• linkedin pulse: Listado de todos los Servicios de AWS (actualizado 1 de Enero 2021)
• towardsaws.com: A Gentle Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• docs.aws.amazon.com: The AWS Security Reference Architecture
• thenewstack.io: The AWS Shared Responsibility Model for Kubernetes
• medium: AWS Services Every Developer Should Be Aware Of
• blog.cloudyali.io: The Absolute minimum every developer must know about AWS security!
• acloudguru.com: 12 AWS Config rules that every account should have
• cloudonaut.io: EC2 Checklist: 7 things to do after launching an instance
• medium: 6 Lessons Learned - Migrating Application on Production
• lastweekinaws.com: 17 More Ways to Run Containers on AWS
• What is Streaming Data?
• dzone: Five Different Ways to Build AWS Infrastructure Before deciding on how to create your production platform, learn about the benefits and drawbacks of different ways to build your AWS infrastructure.
• AWS Architecture Blog: What to Consider when Selecting a Region for your Workloads
• ben11kehoe.medium.com: Never put AWS temporary credentials in the credentials file (or env vars) — there’s a better way Stop putting AWS temporary credentials in ~/.aws/credentials or environment variables!
• Implementing Microservices on AWS 🌟
• intellipaat.com: What is AWS?
• tech.twenix.com: Securiza tu infraestructura cloud sin arruinarte
• amazon.qwiklabs.com/catalog One of the best ways to learn AWS services is to use them. If you want to grow your skills this year check out these AWS quicklabs. Free and paid quests to get you started and gaining experience.
• freecodecamp.org/news/tag/aws Are you looking to get into cloud? Check out all the amazing free content available on freecodecamp under the AWS tag.
• paigeshin1991.medium.com: Drop Nuclear Bomb on your AWS account. How to clear your entire AWS services in 3 seconds
• medium.com/gargee-bhatnagar: How to Create a Custom AMI with Image Pipeline and Automate its Creation Using EC2 Image Builder
• docs.aws.amazon.com: Actions, resources, and condition keys for AWS services 🌟🌟🌟 There’s a Reference for all 𝗜𝗔𝗠 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 🔐 Bookmark it! 🔖
• medium.com/@imaze.enabulele: Autoscaling EC2 Instances for High Availability and Stress Testing 🌟
• awstip.com: How to list all resources in your AWS account
• Building highly resilient applications with on-premises interdependencies using AWS Local Zones AWS Local Zones are a type of infrastructure deployment that places compute, storage, database, and other select AWS services close to large population and industry centers.
• dev.to: Disaster Recovery Cheat-sheet/Write-up 🌟
• terminalsandcoffee.com: Setting Up the AWS CLI & IAM User API Keys 🌟
• dev.to: Best Practices When Designing AWS Architecture 🌟🌟 AWSArchitecture is the way you design & implement your cloud apps using AWS services & resources. A well-designed architecture help to achieve business goals 👉 scalability, reliability, etc.
• infoworld.com: Amazon’s quiet open source revolution After years of getting a free ride from open source projects, the company is developing its own obsession with contributing.
• mrdevops.hashnode.dev: How to Create EC2 Instance in AWS: Step by Step Tutorial

AWS Reference Archigtecture

• infoq.com: AWS Publishes Reference Architecture and Implementations for Deployment Pipelines - New - Deployment Pipelines Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations

AWS Application Services

• k21academy.com: AWS Application Services: Lambda, SES, SNS, SQS, SWF

Blogs

• Introducing Kiro: AWS Agentic AI-Based IDE - (Related to ai topic)
• AWS Organizations: The Key to Managing Your Cloud Infrastructure Effectively - A comprehensive guide to AWS Organizations, explaining its importance for managing multiple AWS accounts, including account management, consolidated billing, and policy enforcement for security and compliance. It highlights the benefits of separating resources into distinct accounts for production, non-production, and other organizational units.

• DevOps Made Easy: Install AWS CLI, ECS CLI, Docker & Terraform Using Chocolatey - (Related to devops topic)

• Jayendra’s Blog 🌟🌟

• aws.plainenglish.io
• AWStip.com Community of passionate AWS builders.

AWS Free Resources

• https://aws.amazon.com/architecture
• https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com
• https://www.aws.training
• skillbuilder.aws: AWS Skill Builder - AWS’s official digital learning center with free and paid courses, hands-on labs, and learning paths for cloud certifications
• https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies
• https://www.youtube.com/user/amazonWebServices
• https://repost.aws
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs
• https://www.slideshare.net/AmazonWebServices
• https://www.twitch.tv/aws
• Everything AWS | Search and discover 6K+ quality AWS repositories
• workshops.aws: AWS Workshops This website lists workshops created by the teams at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Workshops are hands-on events designed to teach or introduce practical skills, techniques, or concepts which you can use to solve business problems. You can filter by topic using the toolbar above.
• dev.to: Many free and useful AWS official Dev and User guides!
• medium.com/towards-cloud-computing: 7 Free AWS Practice Labs and AWS Workshops resources

Containers on AWS

• RunsOn: Self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners in AWS - (Related to cicd topic)

• vladionescu.me: Scaling containers on AWS in 2022 (comparison)

AWS Startup Collection. For startups building on AWS

• bitmovin: Improving Video Quality on the Web
• What Startups Should Know about Amazon VPC — Part 1
• Scaling on AWS (Part 3): >500K Users
• medium.com: Building a Serverless Dynamic DNS System with AWS
• medium.com: The Top 10 AWS Startup Blog Posts of 2015

AWS on Twitter

• twitter.com/awscloud
• twitter.com/AWSreInvent
• twitter.com/jeffbarr
• twitter.com/AWSstartups
• twitter.com/AWS_Partners

AWS Youtube channel and Podcasts

• Amazon Web Services Youtube
• AWS Tutorial Series
• AWS Webinar Channel
• AWS Podcasts
• AWS Techchat
• Stitcher AWS Podcasts

AWS Developer Blog

• Enhanced Local IDE Experience for AWS Step Functions 🌟 - This blog post introduces an enhanced local Integrated Development Environment (IDE) experience for AWS Step Functions, integrating Workflow Studio directly into Visual Studio Code (VS Code) via the AWS Toolkit extension. This allows developers to visually author and edit state machines locally, mirroring the AWS Console experience. The integration simplifies the development of distributed applications, process automation, microservice orchestration, and data/ML pipelines by providing a seamless workflow authoring experience within the developer’s preferred IDE, synchronizing visual changes with the Amazon States Language (ASL) definition.

• The AWS Developer Blog now includes Python & GoLang

• Create an API Using the Swagger Specification and the API Gateway Extensions

AWS Patterns

• Terraform for Standardizing AWS Deployments - (Related to terraform topic)

• Cloudburn: An Open-Source Policy Engine for AWS Spending - Cloudburn is an open-source policy engine designed to prevent and remediate inefficient AWS spending patterns. It aims to block ‘bad AWS spending patterns before they ship’ and actively remediates existing ‘burning’ costs.

• medium: Top 4 AWS Patterns of Highly Available API We want to tell you about a few common patterns that can be used to build highly available APIs on top of AWS infrastructure. We will highlight each of them and briefly describe the pros and cons.

AWS configuration files

• medium: AWS configuration files, explained

AWS Config Rules

• AWS Config Rules now available in 4 new regions: US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), EU (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• medium.com/swlh: AWS Config — Compliance as Code

AWS Management Console

• Working with the AWS Management Console

Resource Hierarchies

• AWS, Azure, GCP: Resource Hierarchies

AWS Tags

• bridgecrew.io: Best practices for AWS tagging with Yor

AWS Systems Manager Explorer

• Multi-account AWS Trusted Advisor summaries now available in AWS Systems Manager Explorer

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

• How to automate incident response to security events with AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)

• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) leverages AWS experience and best practices to help you digitally transform and accelerate your business outcomes through innovative use of AWS. AWS CAF identifies specific organizational capabilities that underpin successful cloud transformations. These capabilities provide best practice guidance that helps you improve your cloud readiness. AWS CAF groups its capabilities in six perspectives: Business, People, Governance, Platform, Security, and Operations. Each perspective comprises a set of capabilities that functionally related stakeholders own or manage in the cloud transformation journey. Use the AWS CAF to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve your transformation roadmap.
• AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) 3.0 is Now Available

AWS re:Post

• repost.aws 🌟
• AWS re:Post – A Reimagined Q&A Experience for the AWS Community
• infoq.com: Amazon Introduces re:Post, a “Stack Overflow” for AWS

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Videos

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Tweets

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You don't know how to get started with AWS?

I can relate!
When I started, AWS already offered so much that I literally couldn't find an entry point.

If you still feel this way, let me give you a little guide.

🧵⏬

— Oliver Jumpertz (@oliverjumpertz) April 5, 2021

This is BIG! You can now assign IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes to your ENIs. The net result is that EC2 instances will now support vastly larger number of IP addresses, and managing those addresses will become easier. 1/nhttps://t.co/3ilNrFtuAp

— Joe Magerramov (@_joemag_) July 22, 2021

When we first launched the managed Prometheus service, one of the feedback was about cost of ingestion. We announced a pricing discount up to 84% recently in case you haven't seen it. https://t.co/wqioBvSXme pic.twitter.com/64ezXUg753

— Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll) September 8, 2021

💫 AWS VPC 101

Virtual Private Cloud is a fundamental concept of AWS ☁️

Let's explore it together in this thread 🧵👇

— Simon ☁️ (@simonholdorf) September 24, 2021

📚 AWS 1x1

ɪᴅᴇɴᴛɪᴛʏ- & ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ ᴍᴀɴᴀɢᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ (ɪᴀᴍ) 🔑

The concepts are crucial & being confident in them is a necessity.

From basics to advanced concepts 🧵↓

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) September 28, 2021

AWS Amplify refers to different products.

You are confused what Amplify exactly is?

We know that AWS isn't the best with naming its products so let's see what Amplify products are exactly out there.

1/6 pic.twitter.com/9dUtwpdjPU

— Sandro Volpic (@sandro_vol) September 28, 2021

Yes, creating your first AWS account with your own credit card feels scary

• those are your first steps 🚶
• you haven't got much or any hands-on yet 🏗
• you've read about those expenses horror stories 💥

but there are a lot of easy ways to get 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘀 ↓

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) September 30, 2021

☁️ Knowledge - Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)#AWS VPCs are region-scoped. If you want to route traffic between regional resources, you need to set up VPC peering, for example. ✅#GCP VPCs are global-scoped. Traffic between resources is automatically routed across regions. ☑️

— Simon ☁️ (@simonholdorf) October 1, 2021

A new checkbox appears in the create subnet dialog of the Amazon VPC console... pic.twitter.com/RroXl07Fe0

— Matthew S. Wilson (msw) (@_msw_) November 23, 2021

Me: using AWS since 2014, using k8s since 2016, AWS Container Hero, and other fancy-sounding stats.

Also me: takes 2 hours to get AWS CloudWatch Container Insights (expensive logs and metrics) running on an EKS cluster

Tech is hard for everybody! Be confident! Full-steam ahead!

— Vlad Ionescu (he/him) (@iamvlaaaaaaad) December 18, 2021

📚 AWS 1x1 - 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵

Your fully-managed monitoring & observability solution for your AWS services, resources & applications.

Almost all you need to know ↓

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) January 14, 2022

𝗔𝗪𝗦 𝗔𝗣𝗜 𝗚𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘆 is one of AWS' fully-managed flagship services ⚡

All of the important facts & key capabilities that you need to know in a single infographic 🌠 ↓ pic.twitter.com/uzdqdPMmCs

— Dashbird.io (@thedashbird) January 17, 2022

"Why do you only focus on @awscloud instead of other cloud providers? Doesn't that cut your market to a tiny fraction of the industry?"

The latest @okta report has a chart within that tells the story succinctly. pic.twitter.com/AkNt1jwUMU

— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) January 31, 2022

In my opinion, IAM is the 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 & 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 service by AWS 🔐

What's a 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁: the concepts are crucial & being confident in them is a necessity! pic.twitter.com/MtvOyLjRzS

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) February 2, 2022

I don't know who did this...but It made my day 😂 AWS moving workloads out of Exadata #HappyWednesday #CloudHumor pic.twitter.com/vq1CSCyr8b

— Guillermo Ruiz (@IaaSgeek) February 2, 2022

My personal holy grail of database solutions: 𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗗𝗕 ⚡️

Sadly, I couldn't fit all the features & must-knows into a single infographic.
There are just too many 💛 pic.twitter.com/UkLcvH19Cp

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) February 16, 2022

Today we announced the completion of 16 #AWS Local Zones in the US and plans for 32 more to be built globally. Local Zones offer ultra-low latency at the edge of the cloud—awesome for gaming, streaming, ML, more!https://t.co/CFHmBI8zrK

— Adam Selipsky (@aselipsky) February 17, 2022

What's the fastest way to scale containers on AWS in 2022?

Is EKS faster than ECS? What's faster: serverless workers (Fargate) or to serverful workers (EC2)?
What about App Runner and Lambda?

Now we know: https://t.co/R82caY9nmn

— Vlad Ionescu (he/him) (@iamvlaaaaaaad) April 13, 2022

AWS DevOps Tools: (Thread)

- #AWS provides plenty of managed tools to meet the needs of #DevOps tools. pic.twitter.com/MxSIw9N6tZ

— Ankit Mehta 🇮🇳🇹🇭 (@ankyitm) June 19, 2022

Just stumbled upon my first cheat sheet for the Solutions Architect Associate 📚

It's more of a key-facts collection with a design that would need improvement 🌟

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿: was made for the 𝗦𝗔𝗔-𝗖𝟬𝟮 & I think there's an upcoming exam update next month! pic.twitter.com/m3dNE57cpZ

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) July 4, 2022

A list of small tools with a 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 when working with AWS 🛠 📈 ↓

— Tobias Schmidt (@tpschmidt_) July 4, 2022

• Convert AWS console actions to reusable code with AWS Console-to-Code, now generally available 🌟 - AWS Console-to-Code is now generally available, enabling users to convert AWS console actions and workflows into reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) formats like AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.

Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI

• (2026) Amazon Bedrock 🌟 - AWS’s fully managed serverless platform for foundation models, enterprise RAG Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and multi-agent collaboration without managing underlying GPU infrastructure.
• (2026) Amazon Bedrock AgentCore 🌟 - Managed serverless agent runtime on AWS providing persistent session microVMs, built-in memory, identity, code interpreter sandboxes, and native Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool hosting.
• (2026) Amazon SageMaker AI 🌟 - Fully managed machine learning and foundation model platform featuring SageMaker Unified Studio and SageMaker HyperPod for resilient distributed GPU training on Amazon EKS.
• (2026) Strands Agents SDK 🌟 - AWS open-source model-driven agent harness and SDK for building production AI agents in Python and TypeScript across Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and Amazon EKS.
• (2026) Amazon Bedrock Official Samples 🌟 - Official AWS reference implementations for Amazon Bedrock covering foundation model inference, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, and enterprise GenAI architectures.
• (2026) AI on Amazon EKS Blueprints 🌟 - Tested production blueprints, Terraform modules, and Helm stacks for running distributed AI/ML training and vLLM/Ray inference workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).