AWS Cookbook: Recipes for Success on AWS

I bought this book by sheer of luck. It's an amazing book that contains a lot of receipts to work with the AWS Cloud, even if you are not quite familiar with AWS.

As a new AWS practitioner I found this “cookbook” held the recipes for lasting success! The book is very detailed yet reads as if it were truly a simple cookbook. Clear and concise examples guide the reader to formulate concise and concrete conclusions and solutions. I especially enjoyed the challenge sections which elevated my knowledge level on the particular chapter that was taught. The authors did a fantastic and thorough job educating you on AWS. The book was a very quick and enjoyable read for me and while I typically don’t like these types of technical books because they often time make me feel like I’m in college again-this book stood out in a very great and helpful way. The book was highly recommended on Amazon.com and among two fellow AWS users I know. I am very glad I gave the book a chance-you won’t want to miss it! Pickup a copy today.

I have been working with AWS services for 10 years but looking to improve my developer skills as well as learn some best practices and new skills in areas such as containers and AI. When looking for resources on line there are lots of documentation and examples but they are all binary and often hard to adapt to individual use cases. This is where I turned to the AWS Cookbook with the goal of helping me create and stich together pieces of code to take my knowledge to the next level. So far I have completed the examples in the first 2 chapters and it doesn't disappoint at all. As well as providing great, real world, use cases to work through it also provides clear guidance on the why an not just the how. One of the challenges can be understanding how everything fits together when just googling for an answer and as a result it can be hard to implement the idea. With the AWS Cookbook it sets out the process as well as steps needed to completed. All of this is backed by a full Git repository for each chapter so you can work with valid code from the get go. As a long time AWS professional I still have learnt a lot, even in the areas I am certified. "Tricks" such as using AWS Secrets Manager to generate a password or random string mean I can now code everything without relying on 3rd party tools. If I am learning things it the areas I know I am certain I will learn significant skills when I get to the areas such as AI/ML that I do not know. Would recommend this to people starting out or using AWS for a while. I am sure my copy will become well worn.

It is good for beginners, it just like a cheat sheet

I was tipped to this book by a colleague who is an expert in AWS within our organization. As someone who works in a sales organization, I don't necessarily need to know all the in-depth things my delivery colleagues do, but this book truly helps a sales guy understand the art of the possible within AWS. From introductions of basic concepts such as syntax, nomenclature, to overall architecture. The way concepts are presented in quickly reusable snippets, make them relative throughout many aspects of day-to-day deployment and management of AWS resources. I can't recommend this book enough, it'll be a regular re-read to reinforce concepts for me to be successful in aligning with my customers questions and needs.