Amazon Web Services (AWS) Made Easy to Follow Through Examples

An introductory AWS book. After reading “The AWS You Need to Know Now,” I wanted to learn more advanced material, which is why I picked up this book. Here are the pros and cons I gathered.

Pros

1. Thanks to its approachable explanations of infrastructure, it helped me get started with AWS as an application developer.
2. Great structure. If you follow this book from start to finish, you end up with an architecture that is more than good enough for production level.
3. The content it covers is broader and richer than “The AWS You Need to Know Now,” the book I read just before this one.
4. There are Q&A sections scattered throughout, and they contain valuable insights that probably come from the author’s experience as an architect.
5. It covers core services with few breaking changes, such as EC2.

Cons

1. It’s dated. Published in April 2017. And it’s even out of print.
2. It doesn’t cover relatively recent services like Lightsail.
3. It has the limitations you’d expect from an introductory book.
4. Aside from demonstrating that you can deploy WordPress, it only covers infrastructure setup. So as for the visible sense of accomplishment of “what did I actually build with this,” readers have to find that on their own.

I’m not sure what book I should read next…

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