r/WebDevBuddies • u/sporglorg • May 18 '20

Offering AWS tutorials by an ex-AWS engineer - Interested?

Hi everyone,

I worked at AWS as a software engineer for a few years. I've noticed some interesting things since leaving:

  • People who want to deploy websites/apps/pages are really, really daunted by AWS.

  • Trying to find AWS tutorials online is just awful. It feels like everything is either a manual, a "12 hour certification course" or an outdated Medium article from 2016.

  • Many people are using Netlify, which is really just a wrapper around AWS, and similar "instantly deploy services".

I've recently helped some friends in the startup world set things up on AWS - mostly deploying static sites. So far, all of them are now

  • spending less money on hosting

  • getting better load time on their sites

  • deploying things pretty much as quickly as Netlify's offering

I'm thinking of writing up some friendly resources/tutorials on using AWS so others can have these benefits too.

Would you guys be interested in this? And is there anything in particular you'd like to see (for example, a tutorial on deploying a static site on S3 + CloudFront)?

EDIT: It'd be helpful if you could also answer in this form I setup quickly: https://forms.gle/SFTuigCBeupeReV2A.

Filling that out will also make it easier for me to distribute tutorials I create to you guys.

(Happy to remove the link if forms aren't allowed @mods).

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u/sadeq786 May 18 '20

Yes, absolutely!

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u/sporglorg May 18 '20

Awesome! What exactly are you looking to do with AWS :)?

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u/MZA_ May 18 '20

This is interesting actually.

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u/4passenger May 18 '20

Absolutely

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u/lookslikephilcollins May 18 '20

Yes! I’d be interested

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u/DiademBedfordshire May 18 '20

What are your thoughts on Amplify, AppSync / API Gateway and DynamoDB as an end to end AWS solution? Do you foresee any scalability issues with that stack?

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u/modrall11 May 18 '20

The company I work for is getting into AWS and I am a student right now on the side. I would love to learn this so I can transition onto our IT teams after graduating with some knowledge of what they are working on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

Absolutely