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📣 matanrubin

Best way to ramp up my AWS-fu from scratch in 2021


Hi all! We’re considering a move to AWS from an on-premise Kubernetes installation. For someone who hasn’t played much with AWS before, how would you recommend to most efficiently get up to speed with best practices, architecture patterns, common pitfalls, etc.?

Ideally, we would not lift-and-shift our applications, but instead rearchitect important parts to actually take advantage of AWS’ benefits.

So - any great resources you can recommend? Courses, books, blog posts - any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks!

  👤 jamesfinlayson Accepted Answer ✓
I'd say just dive straight into the documentation: https://aws.amazon.com/eks/features/ and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/what-is-eks... for example have a lot of information, and you'll need to do your own research on associated services and terms to get a full understanding of how it all works. Read about CloudFormation and or CDK too - only use the console for playing around, not for actually setting things up or deploying anything. Also read about IAM as it underpins all of AWS's permissions. I've been using AWS in my day job for more than two years and I still have a lot to learn about networking and security etc - luckily my company pays for Cloud Conformity which tells me if I'm doing anything stupid or dangerous (security-wise) though I have no idea what it costs. Starting bit by bit is a good idea because there is a lot to AWS - too much to fully understand if you're just getting into it.
👤 pdelgallego
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