[RESOLVED] Learning AWS?

h4x0rmx

I've been coding with PHP for a few years now and I want to learn more about Amazon Web Services (AWS) in general. I've been looking for books and many seem to be outdated. Some blogs and tutorials are also outdated, which is understandable as AWS changes so frequently. I was just wondering if you guys would recommend a specific [up-to-date] book/site where I could learn AWS from the beginning?
Any suggestions would be appreciated!

P.S. I know I can google for this kind of stuff, but I'd like some recommendations from the actual php developers 😉

sneakyimp

I had a lot of really good luck digging around in the Amazon documentation. This article looks pretty good:
http://aws.amazon.com/articles/4261?_encoding=UTF8&jiveRedirect=1

h4x0rmx

Thanks! I'll take a look at it!

Any other suggestions?

etully

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cloud1/
$29.95
Written by Jeff Barr who used to work for Amazon.
Very helpful.

h4x0rmx

etully;10974296 wrote:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cloud1/
$29.95
Written by Jeff Barr who used to work for Amazon.
Very helpful.

I found this book on amazon, someone made a comment saying that it's a little outdated even though it was published less than 6 months ago. Is is still worth it? 🙂

sneakyimp

Etully seems to think it's worthwhile. He's a pretty smart guy.

I have noticed that Amazon is adding/changing things all the time (like Elastic Beanstalk is new and probably not mentioned in that book). Personally, I would just advise you to get started with the on-line documentation and start writing some basic code that makes use of AWS. If you need more info, forums are quite useful. The information can change quite rapidly.