Master AWS without the certification trap
400+ pages of production-grade AWS. Real-world patterns, battle-tested architectures, and an infographic for every one of the 16 core services.
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It is intended to focus on AWS usage in the real world, and goes deeper than simply providing the information needed to obtain certifications. The per-service infographics also look amazing!
Jeff Barr — Vice President, Amazon Web Services
01 — What's inside
AWS is well documented. Knowing what to actually use isn't.
Building on AWS means stitching together a lot of services and repeating the same best practices over and over. This book is those best practices — the config options that matter, and nothing more.
Pages that earn their place
No filler chapters. The config options you need, and not more.
Core services, deeply
Compute, storage, networking, databases — from EC2 to serverless.
Service infographics
Every service as one visual you can pin above your desk.
IaC tools introduced
CloudFormation, CDK, SST, Serverless, Pulumi and Terraform.
02 — Table of contents
Every core service, in order.
Introduction
Scope, why we wrote it, and who this book is for (and who it isn’t).
Getting started
Account setup, security basics, avoiding cost surprises, shared responsibility.
Security
Users, roles, policies and least privilege that survives contact with reality.
Compute
EC2, ECS with Fargate, and Lambda. When each one is the right answer.
Database & storage
RDS, DynamoDB and S3: modelling, capacity and cost.
Messaging
SQS, SNS and EventBridge for decoupled, event-driven systems.
03 — Infographics
Learn AWS the visual way.
One detailed infographic per core service — the whole mental model on a single page. Included in the Book + Infographics package, unbranded and print-ready.
DynamoDB
The holy grail of database solutions.
ECS
A fully-managed container orchestration service.
Route 53
Highly-available, scalable cloud DNS.
S3
Secure, durable object storage in the cloud.
16 infographics in total. Previews shown — full high-resolution versions ship with the book.
04 — Pricing
Pick your package
One-time payment. 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.
The E-Book
The complete book: AWS Fundamentals — AWS for the real world.
Book + Infographics
The book plus the full unbranded infographic set for every core service.
Infographics only
Just the visuals — the core AWS building blocks at a glance.
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Some kind words from the community
I’m excited about this one — we get a lot of web dev and JS around here, and we’re missing more cloud, infrastructure and engineering fundamentals. I think this will be great!
Simon Høiberg — Founder, FeedHive
Two of my favorite AWS content creators. This is going to be absolute fire. Subscribe now!
Alex Kates — Senior Fullstack Developer
This is awesome, Tobias!
Alex DeBrie — Author of The DynamoDB Book
This is amazing and I’d love to translate it.
Leandro Damascena — Solutions Architect, AWS
Amazing!
Andrew Brown — Cloud creator (OG)
A very useful thread for anyone who is ready to learn more about AWS.
Jeff Barr — VP, Amazon Web Services
05 — Your instructors
20+ years of combined production AWS experience.
We've built, broken and debugged production systems on AWS for startups and enterprises alike — so you can learn from our mistakes instead of your own.
Tobias Schmidt
Cloud Engineer & Educator
10+ years AWS. Migrated production workloads for startups and large enterprises — and fell into every trap so you don't have to.
Sandro Volpicella
Fullstack Developer & AWS Specialist
AWS Community Builder, conference speaker and author of two AWS books. Builds serverless-first, cost-effective architectures.
Frequently asked questions
Still stuck? Write us at hello@awsfundamentals.com.
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