This page contains a list of useful links and tools to get started with and stay up do date about AWS.

Staying up to date

AWS News Page - for a list of all new feature announcements
AWS News Blog - for more in-depth explanations about the news above
Last Week in AWS Newsletter - a newsletter by Corey Quinn that keeps you up do date on the most important things happening in AWS (with a bunch of sarcasm)

Blogs

tecRacer AWS Blog - on our AWS Blog we publish articles about what we learn and build on AWS
Official AWS Blog - there’s a lot of interesting content published here every day, probably too much to keep up to date with all of them, but you can filter by categories

AWS Morning Brief basically the podcast version of the Last Week in AWS Newsletter
Screaming in the Cloud is the Podcast where Corey Quinn interviews people that work in the Cloud Space
Official AWS Podcast - not as fun as Corey’s podcasts, but they have some interesting content as well

Corey Quinn (@quinnypig) on Twitter: Because of his commentary and snark on AWS, he’s probably the most well known AWS-Influencer besides Jeff Barr
Jeff Barr (@jeffbarr) on Twitter: As the Chief evangelist of AWS he’s a great resource to follow
Swift on Security (@swiftonsecurity) on Twitter: Parody account of Taylor Swift as an IT Security Expert, actually funny and insightful (not a strong focus on Cloud)

tecRacer AWS Trainings
tecRacer AWS Cheat Sheets - the digital version of your physical sheets
A Cloud Guru - I use this to prepare for my certifications
Whizlabs - Practice exams for AWS Certifications (good for the associates, questionable for some of the specialties)
Free Online Courses by AWS - Some people like those, personally I’m not a big fan (too much marketing).
Schedule your AWS exam
AWS Learning Paths

EKS Workshop - Workshop on getting started with EKS
EKS and Kubernetes on EC2 Container Networking Workshop
ECS Workshop - Workshop on getting started with ECS
AppMesh Workshop - Workshop on getting started with AppMesh
Lightsail Workshop - Workshop on getting started with Lights
CDK Workshop - Workshop on getting started with the Cloud Development Kit in different languages
awsworkshop.io - Workshops for DevSecOps, Application Modernizations and others.
Security Workshops - Workshops around various AWS security topics
AWS Research Workshops - Collection of workshops for Big data, Data Lakes, Batch Computing and Machine Learning
CloudFormation 101 Workshop
DynamoDB Labs

These are kind of behind the scenes / under the hood videos that describe how AWS builds their services.

AWS User Groups - a great way to meet people that have similar problems (not actually a self-help group)
AWS Events - lists all online- and offline AWS events and webinars that might interest you
AWS in Plain English - Website that tries to explain in plain english what most AWS services are actually about.
List of Tools for lots of AWS Problems
12 Factor Apps - or how to develop (web) applications in the 21st century
Reactive Manifesto - an extension to 12 Factor Apps
How AWS came to be (by Andy Jassy - CEO of AWS)
Free CloudFormation Templates - great resource to get started in your account with plain CloudFormation by Andreas and Michael Wittig.
Free CDK Templates and Examples published by my colleagues - a great way to get hands on experience with the Cloud Development Kit
AWS Quickstart - CloudFormation templates for common use cases.
AWS Load Balancing Demos
The DynamoDB Book - Fantastic book that goes in-depth into DynamoDB and design patterns.