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The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
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Purpose

-	Why an Open Guide?
-	Scope
-	Legend

AWS in General

-	General Information
-	Learning and Career Development
-	Managing AWS
-	Managing Servers and Applications

| Specific AWS Services                 | Basics                         | Tips                          | Gotchas                                        |
|---------------------------------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
| ALB | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| AMIs | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| API Gateway | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Auto Scaling | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Batch | 📗 | 📘 |
| Certificate Manager | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| CLB (ELB) | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| CloudFront | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| CloudFormation | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| CloudWatch | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Device Farm | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| DirectConnect | 📗 | 📘 |  |
| DynamoDB | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| EBS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| EC2 | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| ECS | 📗 | 📘 |  |
| EKS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙  |
| EFS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Elastic Beanstalk | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Elastic IPs | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| ElastiCache | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| EMR | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Fargate | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Glacier | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| IoT | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Kinesis Firehose |  |  | 📙 |
| Kinesis Streams | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| KMS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Lambda | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Load Balancers | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Mobile Hub | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| OpsWorks | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Quicksight | 📗 | | 📙 |
| RDS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS Aurora | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS Aurora MySQL | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS Aurora PostgreSQL | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS MySQL and MariaDB | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS PostgreSQL | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| RDS SQL Server | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Redshift | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Route 53 | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| S3 | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Security and IAM | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| SES | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| SNS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| SQS | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| Step Functions | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| WAF | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |
| VPCs, Network Security, and Security Groups | 📗 | 📘 | 📙 |

Special Topics

-	High Availability
-	Billing and Cost Management
-	Further Reading

Legal

-	Disclaimer
-	License

Figures and Tables

 

-	Figure: Tools and Services Market Landscape: A selection of third-party companies/products
-	Figure: AWS Data Transfer Costs: Visual overview of data transfer costs
-	Table: Service Matrix: How AWS services compare to alternatives
-	Table: AWS Product Maturity and Releases: AWS product releases
-	Table: Storage Durability, Availability, and Price: A quantitative comparison

Why an Open Guide?
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A lot of information on AWS is already written. Most people learn AWS by reading a blog or a “getting started guide” and referring to the standard AWS references. Nonetheless, trustworthy and practical information and recommendations aren’t easy to come by. AWS’s own documentation is a great but sprawling resource few have time to read fully, and it doesn’t include anything but official facts, so omits experiences of engineers. The information in b

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