Life & fun · September 8, 2023
AWS Fundamentals
AWS for the real world, not for certifications
AWS Fundamentals launched on September 8, 2023 with 152 votes, #323 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
Learn AWS for the real world. AWS Fundamentals teaches you the core AWS Services in an easy & visual way. Certifications are great, but you don't need them to actually build on AWS. Follow best practices and level up your AWS journey 🚀🌐
Real AWS judgment for engineers who ship. The decisions, cost traps, and war stories certifications skip.
Real AWS judgment — the decisions, cost traps, and war stories certifications skip . Written by two engineers who ship production AWS every day. Read by Jeff Barr (AWS), Alex DeBrie , Andrew Brown , and 13.1k + engineers. A very useful thread for anyone who is ready to learn more about AWS. Not because you're bad — because nobody teaches this part. Docs list knobs. Certs test trivia. Tutorials assume greenfield. What's missing is the reasoning: which option, why that one, and what it costs you when it turns out wrong. DynamoDB? Postgres? Aurora? Every tutorial picks for you — none explain why the other option was wrong for your case. NAT Gateway egress, CloudWatch ingestion, data transfer…from awsfundamentals.com
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