In this post, we have prepared a curated top list of reading recommendations for beginners and experienced. This hand-picked list of the best Aws books and tutorials can help fill your brain this April and ensure you’re getting smarter. We have also mentioned the brief introduction of each book based on the relevant Amazon or Reddit descriptions.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam (2016)
- AWS: Amazon Web Services Tutorial The Ultimate Beginners Guide (2017)
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam (2017)
- AWS: Developers Guide to AWS Lambda The Ultimate Beginners Guide (2017)
- Amazon Web Services in Action (2015)
- Serverless Architectures on AWS (2017)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam: 300+ Questions and Answers (2018)
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate Guide: Your one-stop solution to pass the AWS (2017)
- AWS Networking Cookbook (2017)
- AWS Basics: Beginners Guide (2017)
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking Official Study Guide: Specialty Exam (2018)
- AWS Lambda in Action: Event-driven serverless applications (2016)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Official Study Guide: Associate Exam (2016)
This is your opportunity to take the next step in your career by expanding and validating your skills on the AWS cloud.
Author(s): Joe Baron, Hisham Baz
AWS: Amazon Web Services Tutorial The Ultimate Beginners Guide (2017)
To benefit from this tutorial, you should have the desire to understand how Amazon Web Services can help you scale your cloud computing services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s cloud web hosting platform that offers flexible, reliable, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solutions. This tutorial covers various important topics illustrating how AWS works and how it is beneficial to run your website on Amazon Web Services. This tutorial is prepared for beginners who want to learn how Amazon Web Services works to provide reliable, flexible, and cost-effective cloud computing services.
Author(s): Dennis Hutten
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam (2017)
Comprehensive, interactive exam preparation and so much more. The AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Official Study Guide: Associate Exam is a comprehensive exam preparation resource. This book bridges the gap between exam preparation and real-world readiness, covering exam objectives while guiding you through hands-on exercises based on situations you’ll likely encounter as an AWS Certified SysOps Administrator. From deployment, management
Author(s): Stephen Cole, Gareth Digby
AWS: Developers Guide to AWS Lambda The Ultimate Beginners Guide (2017)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda lets you run JavaScript (Node.js), Java & Python scripts/apps in Amazon’s (virtually) infinately-scalable cloud environment without having provision VM instances or other “orquestration”; Everything is dynamically auto-scaled so if you have 1 user or 1 billion you pay for usage. AWS are effectively disrupting their (own) existing business with Lambda. Instead of forcing us to pay for EC2 instances in fixed increments and have complex application monitoring/scaling, AWS have built a much simpler way of building & running micro-services.
Author(s): Dennis Hutten
Amazon Web Services in Action (2015)
Amazon Web Services in Action introduces you to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. The book will teach you about the most important services on AWS. You will also learn about best practices regarding automation, security, high availability, and scalability. Physical data centers require lots of equipment and take time and resources to manage. If you need a data center, but don’t want to build your own, Amazon Web Services may be your solution.
Author(s): Andreas Wittig, Michael Wittig
Serverless Architectures on AWS (2017)
Serverless Architectures on AWS teaches you how to build, secure and manage serverless architectures that can power the most demanding web and mobile apps. Forewords by Patrick Debois (Founder of devopsdays) and Dr. Donald F. Ferguson (Columbia University). There’s a shift underway toward serverless cloud architectures. With the release of serverless computer technologies such as AWS Lambda, developers are now building entirely serverless platforms at scale.
Author(s): Peter Sbarski
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam: 300+ Questions and Answers (2018)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Exam is a study guide for AWS certification. The increasing popularity of cloud computing is the result of an operational model that now has enterprise companies migrating data center applications to the cloud. According to a study almost 70% of all IP internet traffic will terminate at a cloud data center by 2018.
Author(s): Shaun Hummel
AWS Certified Developer – Associate Guide: Your one-stop solution to pass the AWS (2017)
An effective guide to becoming an AWS Certified Developer.This book is for IT professionals and developers looking to clear the AWS Certified Developer Associate 2017 exam. Developers looking to develop and manage their applications on the AWS platform will also find this book useful. No prior AWS experience is needed. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Guide starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites to get you started. Then, this book gives you a fair
Author(s): Vipul Tankariya, Bhavin Parmar
AWS Networking Cookbook (2017)
This book starts with practical recipes on the fundamentals of cloud networking and gradually moves on to configuring networks and implementing infrastructure automation. This book then supplies in-depth recipes on networking components like Network Interface, Internet Gateways, DNS, Elastic IP addresses, and VPN CloudHub.
Author(s): Satyajit Das, Jhalak Modi
AWS Basics: Beginners Guide (2017)
This book is an exploration of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The first part of the book is a guide for you on what the Amazon EC2 is. This allow those who are not aware of what Ec2 is to learn more about it.
Author(s): Gordon Wong
AWS Certified Advanced Networking Official Study Guide: Specialty Exam (2018)
The official study guide for the AWS certification specialty exam. The AWS Certified Advanced Networking Official Study Guide – Specialty Exam helps to ensure your preparation for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Exam.
Author(s): Sidhartha Chauhan, James Devine
AWS Lambda in Action: Event-driven serverless applications (2016)
AWS Lambda in Action is an example-driven tutorial that teaches you how to build applications that use an event-driven approach on the back end. With AWS Lambda, you write your code and upload it to the AWS cloud. AWS Lambda responds to the events triggered by your application or your users, and automatically manages the underlying computer resources for you. Back-end tasks like analyzing a new document or processing requests from a mobile app are easy to implement.
Author(s): Danilo Poccia
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Best AWS Books You Must Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some Aws books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Serverless Architectures with AWS
Author(s): Mohit Gupta
ID: 2344140, Publisher: Packt Publishing, Year: December 2018, Size: 24 Mb, Format: pdf
Aws D16. 1m/d16. 1 AWS D16. 1M/D16. 1: 2018, Specification for Robotic Arc Welding Safety: 2018, Specification for Robotic Arc Welding Safety
Author(s): American Welding Society
ID: 2788271, Publisher: American Welding Society, Year: Aril 2018, Size: 942 Kb, Format: pdf
AWS for Solutions Architects: Build and migrate your workload to Amazon Web Services using the cloud-native approach, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Saurabh Shrivastava, Neelanjali Srivastav, Alberto Artasanchez
ID: 3311587, Publisher: Packt Publishing - ebooks Account, Year: 2023, Size: 5 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly hot items according to Los Angeles Times, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.