Top Resources to master AWS Cloud in 2024
Learning cloud is one of the most rewarding skills I have ever learned.
But it is challenging if you are just starting.
As a cloud engineer who has been building on the cloud (mostly on AWS) for years, I consume all forms of resources including books, podcasts, event talks, blog posts, and so on.
In this week’s episode of The Cloud Handbook, I wanted to share resources I have been using over the years.
📚 Let’s start with the books I read.
I have always been of big fan of reading books. Here are the books I recommend.
Serverless Architecture on AWS
🎤 Best event talks I have watched.
Best practices for serverless developers
Architecting your serverless applications for hyperscale
Advanced data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB
Building Distributed Applications with Event Driven Architecture
Or look out for great talks at the AWS Event Channel and GOTO Conference.
👨🏽🎓 Courses I have taken
Solutions Architect - Knowledge Badge Readiness Path
AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate
AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional
AWS Certified Developer Associate
And some few on CloudAcademy.
🎙️ Podcasts I listen to
Serverless Chat — Everything Cloud, serverless, news and updates around it.
AWS FM — AWS, Community, and fun.
Software Huddle — Software engineering, databases, cloud, and more.
Ready, Set, Cloud — Serverless, cloud, news, updates, and more.
▶ YouTube Channel I follow for tutorials and updates
Tech World with Nana— Mostly talks about DevOps, Cloud, K8s.
Be a Better Dev — AWS tutorials, best practices,
FooBar Serverless — Serverless queen. Talks mostly about everything AWS serverless.
Yan Cui TheBurningMonk — Podcasts, interviews, anything aws serverless.
Tech with Lucy — Cloud career guide, journeys, share her experiences.
🦹🏻 Community Heroes I follow
Andrew Brown: Andrew Brown is an AWS Hero and makes courses around cloud technology. He also publishes free AWS certification courses on the FreeCodecamp YouTube channel.
Yan Cui—Independent consultant, Yan is a Serverless Hero and advocate in the serverless community. He is the author of multiple books, workshops, and speakers.
Sandro Volpicella—Author of AWS Fundamentals book. He writes, posts, and blogs about AWS technologies regularly on various social platforms.
Alex Debrie—Independent consultant, DynamoDB expert, AWS Serverless Hero, speaker, and podcast host. Talks everything around data, serverless, and AWS.
Tobias Schmidt—I follow him for everything about AWS and beautiful infographics
Lucy Wang — Ex-AWS Solution architect sharing her experiences through youtube videos, and newsletters.
Jeremy Daly — Serverless Hero, blogger, and founder of Ampt.
Jones Zachariah Noel— Advocates for Freshwork, talks about AWS, and writes The Serverless Terminal newsletter.
Lee James Gilmore — Serverless Advocate, Blogger, Speaker, Architect.
Marcia Villalba — Advocate for AWS, makes videos on her YouTube channel about everything about AWS.
…and others few.
Thanks for the shoutout! Glad to be be in the great troop of Cloud enablers.
But, do you have a certificacion?