Isolate your environments in your account with VPC. Enables you to define IP ranges, private and public subnets, route tables, access points from and to your network, and much more.
Securely and programmatically manage permissions for individual resources by creating users, groups, roles & policies. It's one of the most fundamental parts of AWS and you should deep dive into this service.
AWS is growing its number of services at a fast pace.
If we're counting namespaces, the statistics over the past decade are mind-boggling:
· 2013: 25
· 2015: 46
· 2017: 78
· 2019: 182
How to keep up with what's new?
A small thread about sources to keep you up-to-date 🧵👇
(1/4) The AWS News Blog
Guarantees to not miss out on new features or services, but also contains interesting statistics and other insights from AWS itself.
Gets updated very regularly, sometimes several times a day.
If you're only focusing on keeping up with the new capabilities AWS provides, that's your major source.
You'll learn about small or big improvements to existing services, introductions of new ones as well as region expansions.
Scared of getting your hands on at AWS because you're in fear of unexpected costs for the cloud?
You don't have to be!
A small thread about steps you can take to sleep better on your journey to becoming an AWS expert 🧵👇
(1/6) AWS Free Tier #1
AWS grants you a lot of room for experiments for different services each month:
- 1m Lambda Requests
- 25 GB of DynamoDB storage
- 100 build minutes on CodeBuild
... and much more!
Even better: if you've recently created your account, you also have additional free limits for the next 12 months, including for example running a EC2 t2 or t3 micro instance without any costs.