Two books written from production experience, with the infographics you'll keep open on a second monitor. Not certification cram material.
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The library
One teaches you the services you use every day. The other stops your observability bill from eating the budget.
The book + infographics bundle that taught 2,500+ engineers to build on AWS.
A practical guide to the AWS services you actually run in production, plus 17 detailed service infographics you can keep on hand.
The only book dedicated to AWS-native observability and cost-effective monitoring.
Stop paying six figures for third-party monitoring. Learn how modern CloudWatch replaces most of what you think you need. Written by AWS Community Builder Tobias Schmidt.
What's inside
Every chapter ends in a full-page diagram: the moving parts, the limits that bite, and the decision you actually have to make.
Three of the seventeen. Every one gets the same treatment, and the CloudWatch Book ships one per chapter too.
Chapters are short and self-contained. Skip to the service you're wiring up today.
High-resolution PNGs. Pin them next to your desk or drop them into a design doc.
Buy once, get every revision. No new edition to re-purchase in two years.
“Focused on AWS usage in the real world, and goes deeper than simply providing the information needed to obtain certifications.”
Written by Tobias Schmidt & Alessandro Volpicella, AWS Community Builders with 30,000+ newsletter readers.
FAQ
Anything else? Email us at hello@awsfundamentals.com and we answer within a day.
AWS Fundamentals if you want to be productive across the core services. The CloudWatch Book if your monitoring bill or your blind spots are the problem you have today. They cover different ground, so plenty of people own both.
400+ pages across the 16 core services — IAM, compute, storage, databases, networking, messaging and observability — plus a practical introduction to Infrastructure as Code with CloudFormation, CDK and the Serverless Framework. The bundle adds 17 unbranded, print-ready infographics, one per service.
Every CloudWatch feature across 350+ pages: logs and Insights, metrics, alarms, dashboards, X-Ray, RUM, Synthetics, anomaly detection, OpenTelemetry and log aggregation. Each chapter ships its own infographic. The bigger packages add the full source of a real production project in Terraform and CDK, and 6+ hours of video.
No. We walk you through the services and the configuration that matters. The Infrastructure as Code chapters use mostly TypeScript examples, but you can follow them without writing TypeScript yourself.
Some of it. AWS is well documented, and that is exactly the problem — knowing which service to reach for and how to configure it is the real work. We show you the patterns we have used in production over and over, and the traps we walked into first.
No, and that's the point. Everything is aimed at systems you actually run. You'll be better prepared for an exam as a side effect, but we optimise for the day job.
All three. Teams of five or more get a licence and a proper invoice, students get a discount, and we honour purchasing power parity so the price matches where you live. Email hello@awsfundamentals.com and we sort it out.
PDF and EPUB with no DRM, every future revision for free, and access to our Discord. If it's not for you, we refund within 30 days. No questions asked.
Free and open to everyone — you don't need to own a book. Ask questions, share what you're building, and get unstuck faster.
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Student, team (5+) or purchasing power parity discount? Hit us up — we match the price to where you live.