AWS for Busy Beginners
Launch and Scale Your First Cloud ApplicationBy Priya Holloway
Length7h 48m
About this audiobook
AWS cloud computing and cloud computing for beginners. AWS cloud computing hands-on guide for busy beginners who want to build real things fast. No fluff, just practical skills to launch your cloud career.
Are you overwhelmed by AWS’s 200+ services? This book cuts through the noise. You’ll learn the essential services—EC2, S3, Lambda, and more—by building real projects. No theory without practice. Each chapter ends with a working application you can show off.
Start with the AWS console and core concepts. Then move to automation with CLI and SDKs. Master security, networking, and cost optimization. By the end, you’ll deploy a serverless web app, a data pipeline, and a CI/CD workflow. You’ll understand the foundations that make the rest make sense.
What makes this book different? It’s written for busy people. Short chapters, clear steps, and real-world examples. You don’t need a DevOps background. Just a laptop and curiosity.
Compare with The DevOps Handbook, Second Edition by Gene Kim and Securing DevOps by Julien Vehent—both great for advanced teams but skip the beginner’s journey. This book fills that gap.
Perfect for: developers, sysadmins, students, and career changers. No prior cloud experience required.
Get your hands dirty and become AWS certified-ready. Start building today.
This hands-on Cloud/DevOps guide is written to be used at the keyboard: every concept is paired with something you can run, adapt, and keep. You move from first principles to real, working results, with the common errors and fixes called out along the way so you are never stuck for long.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length7 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1 — Cloud Foundations and Your Project Blueprint
3Chapter 2 — Setting Up AWS and Securing Your Root User
4Chapter 3 — Designing Your Virtual Network with Amazon VPC
5Chapter 4 — Launching Your Blog’s Web Server with Amazon EC2
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6Chapter 5 — Storing Static Assets with Amazon S3
7Chapter 6 — Persisting Blog Data with Amazon RDS
8Chapter 7 — Connecting the Pieces: Integrating EC2, S3, and RDS
9Chapter 8 — Accelerating Global Delivery with Amazon CloudFront
10Chapter 9 — Making Your Blog Resilient with Load Balancing and Auto Scaling
11Chapter 10 — Monitoring and Logging with Amazon CloudWatch
12Chapter 11 — Automating Tasks with AWS Lambda
13Chapter 12 — Hardening Security: IAM Roles, Encryption, and HTTPS
14Chapter 13 — Managing Costs with Budgets, Trusted Advisor, and Reserved Instances
15Chapter 14 — Implementing CI/CD for Your Blog
16Chapter 15 — Backup, Disaster Recovery, and High Availability
17Chapter 16 — Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Common Issues
18Chapter 17 — Going Live: Domain, DNS, and Final Polish
19Chapter 18 — Next Steps: Certifications, Advanced Topics, and Career Growth
20About the Author
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