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Top books to break into cloud computing on AWS
Growing your cloud skills the old-fashioned way
Since 2006 and the announcement of Amazon S3 storage service general availability, cloud computing has moved a very long way from a technology purely dedicated to mere infrastructure and utility. “The cloud”, is now one of the faster way to accelerate the pace of innovation for digital pure players, technology startups or large iconic industrial groups alike. The learning resources are numerous: I for one, have been an avid user of Udemy, Udacity, Whizlabs or A Cloud Guru to name just a few. In addition, sifting through free resources provided by Amazon Web Services, I can dive deep into a set of technologies.
But sometime, there’s nothing better than having a mentor guiding you in your first steps taking a dent into a new service, programming language, or approach…
What if you’d like to design and build an industrial data lake to collect your sensor data and provide them after a timely fashion to thousand of end users? What about artificial intelligence? Where do you start? Beyond this, you also need to have a good command of security and authentication mechanisms. After all, you wouldn’t want your successful idea to be set aside because it’s not considered secured enough by your target audience? What about costs and financial operation? How do you ensure your cloud bills stays as low as possible while giving you the ability to predict any change of behavior over time?
Finding a mentor or someone to enable you in all these topics might not be possible for you, so in this article, I will give you the next best things: books! A good book, can give you a solid foundation and a digestible learning path that will allow you to become autonomous and better understand what you don’t know and where you need to focus. And I have good news: with the pandemic, many Amazonian colleagues or deep AWS practitioners have had some time to actually collaborate with publishers such as Packt Publishing and O’Reilly to write recent books that will help you tackle your favorites topics.
Note: O’Reilly media decided to stop selling books directly from their website, so you will need to get a Safari subscription or head over to their shop on Amazon.com.
