EP03: Essential Reading for Cloud Builders
What I read this week, Ideas, hands-on, how-tos, tools, books, and updates from around the community.
Hi— this is Kisan from The Cloud Handbook. This is EP03 of “Essential Reading for Cloud Builders” series. Each week I will send curated roundup of the most insightful and practical resources from across the cloud community. Whether you're building apps, infrastructure, or strategy — this series helps you stay sharp and current in cloud.
🧠 Latest in Cloud
Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025
On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) us-east-1 facility caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and AWS us-east-1. This impacted many users who were connecting to or receiving connections from Cloudflare via servers in AWS us-east-1 in the form of high latency, packet loss, and failures to origins.
🧭 What I'm Reading this Week
Generative AI Solution Patterns: How to scale from PoC to Production
The TLS Certificate Paradox: Why AWS Lambda Doesn’t Need NLB Certificates (But Fails on On-Prem TLS)
AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides customizable Dashboards
Amazon S3 introduces a new way to verify the content of stored datasets
🛠️ Hands-on & How-tos
AWS Bookstore Demo App is a full-stack sample web application that creates a storefront (and backend) for customers to shop for fictitious books. The entire application can be created with a single CloudFormation template. Try out the deployed application here!
You can browse and search for books, look at recommendations and best sellers, manage your cart, checkout, view your orders, and more. Get started with building your own below!
Building CI/CD pipelines for Lambda canary deployments using AWS CDK
This workshops will help you with:
Canary deployments for AWS Lambda serverless microservices. Adding security/quality tools to your AWS CDK applications and Building CI/CD pipelines for your AWS CDK applications
📚 Book of the Week
Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition 2nd Edition by Peter Sbarski, Yan Cui, Ajay Nair
Serverless Architectures on AWS, Second Edition teaches you how to design serverless systems. You’ll discover the principles behind serverless architectures, and explore real-world case studies where companies used serverless architectures for their products. You won’t just master the technical essentials—the book contains extensive coverage of balancing tradeoffs and making essential technical decisions. This new edition has been fully updated with new chapters covering current best practice, example architectures, and full coverage of the latest changes to AWS.
You can buy this book here.
💬 Quote of the Week
"Ultimately, the cloud is the latest example of Schumpeterian creative destruction: creating wealth for those who exploit it; and leading to the demise of those that don’t." - Joe Weinman, Senior VP at Telx and author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing
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