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👋 Personal update: I've joined @AWScloud!

Here's how I think about @AWSAmplify, and why I joined: swyx.io/writing/hello-…

There is so much I don't yet know and I'm excited to #LearnAWSinPublic. 🥳 Got any advice/resources? I'll share some I've found below 👇
3 Big Things I Wish Someone had Told Me When I Started Using AWS

I found @jaredshort via @jeremy_daly's awesome Serverless chats podcasts. Both of them share a great deal of hard earned AWS knowledge!

dev.to/trek10inc/3-bi…
All of @QuinnyPig's AWS media empire: lastweekinaws.com

I've been mainlining the entire back catalog of Screaming in the Cloud and AWS Morning Brief to get smart on things. Corey packs a lot of snark but gives credit where due and makes topics accessible to beginners!
Speaking of which, through Corey I found @hirokonishimura, who runs @awsnewbies and @cloudnewbies. She got into cloud in the first place by
#LearnInPublic sharing her notes, which eventually got her noticed by @LinkedIn and kicked off her current career!

awsnewbies.com
Btw if you want to get your first job in the cloud, there is NO BETTER OFFER right now than @forrestbrazeal's #CloudResumeChallenge. Pick up what he puts down, people want to help people who can help themselves.

Forrest also does awesome raps/talks! 😃

Did you know about the #AWSCertified Challenge? @ossia and @examproco teamed up to offer FREE COURSES on the @freeCodeCamp YouTube.

freecodecamp.org/news/awscertif…

These certifications *mean something* - if you want to cover your bases, and boost your resume, it's a great choice!
Let's not forget that AWS itself has a full training arm with highly produced video courses on everything from Cloud Fundamentals to Machine Learning: aws.training
If you're more the reading sort, did you also know that AWS publishes whitepapers about itself? They are *fascinating*. How does a 95 page Overview of Amazon Web Services sound? Sounds FREAKING AMAZING?!

(yes you can read it on Kindle too, naturally)

aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/?w…
AWS has a lot of services! Here's a bunch of "AWS in Plain English" explainers:

- helenanderson.co.nz/aws-a-z/
- adayinthelifeof.nl/2020/05/20/aws…
- expeditedsecurity.com/aws-in-plain-e…

How bout a periodic table? @FitzXyz did it, the madman. moca.computingarchitectures.com/en/~hello-worl…
Simple Storage Service (S3) is the 8th Wonder of the Modern World. Promising 11 nines of availability (99.999999999%) looks more like someone fell asleep on the keyboard than consciously typed it in an SLA. You can learn S3 via Vasily Pantyukhin's game: …l1.s3-website.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
You might consider @AWSAmplify to be "AWS: the Good Parts, Serverless Edition".

If you are NOT of the serverless bent, check @dvassallo's bestselling The Good Parts of AWS!
The most-watched AWS Re:invent sessions are about @DynamoDB, and no wonder - they are a key enabler for Serverless:

Read @Werner's original paper: allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-d… and then get @alexbdebrie's The DynamoDB book:
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