Where to Start with AWS as a Developer with Sam Julien
summary
Practical roadmap: start with EC2 for servers, S3 for static files, and AWS Lambda for serverless functions, use Route 53 for DNS and RDS or DynamoDB for databases; learn billing controls (free tier, billing alarms, clean up resources) and IAM best practices (MFA, principle of least privilege, sandbox accounts). Use lab platforms like A Cloud Guru to avoid surprise charges. Certification path: Cloud Practitioner → Associate (Solutions Architect, SysOps, Developer) → Professional (Solutions Architect or DevOps) with optional specialty exams.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Start
- 4:55What is the cloud anyway?
- 6:05Capital vs. operating expenses
- 9:31Elasticity
- 10:41Elastic Compute Cloud
- 11:16Lambda
- 12:15Simple Storage Service
- 12:58Route 53 = DNS
- 13:34Relational Database Service
- 14:46Amplify
- 16:53Clean up after yourself
- 17:24Use labs
- 20:27Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- 21:01Principle of Least Privilege
- 21:56Use a sandbox account
- 22:31Certifications
- 24:27Professional Exams
- 25:08Specialty Exams
- 25:34Recap
- 27:32Pitfalls
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