AWS Fundamentals for Startups

Artwork for an upcoming video I’m producing.

Introduction

I talk to lots of early startups who want to get moving fast on the AWS platform as little as time as possible. I want to cover the most common questions asked and some things I think you must absolutely learn.

Considerations

This tutorial series can be applied to any stack but I’m going focus on Ruby on Rails scenarios since I think many people are coming from Heroku with Rails.

Syllabus

I’m going to break this guide up into part so you can easily digest each section and allow me talk in greater length about each part instead of having one big blob of a tutorial

• Part 1 Set up Billing Alerts to avoid unexpected charges
• Part 2 IS AWS Support Worth It?
• Part 2 Moving from Heroku to Elastic Beanstalk with RDS
• Part 3 Authentication with Amazon Cognito
• Part 4 Easy Local Development Environment with Virtual Box
• Part 5 Process images with S3, AWS Lambda