Where to Start with AWS as a Developer

Cloud infrastructure is a $100 billion industry and AWS is the market leader. Adding AWS skills to your repertoire and certifications to your resumé can make you more competitive and boost your earning power, but where do you start? There are over 200 AWS products and services! How do you start chipping away at this complex elephant, but do it in a way that's practical? In this talk, you'll learn the key concepts of cloud computing, the best services to start learning as a developer like EC2 and S3, what the certification path looks like, and where to go for help. We'll also cover tricky areas to watch out for like billing and Identity and Access Management (IAM). By the end, you'll have a clear path forward to leveling up your skills and career using AWS!

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1. @samjulien Where to Start with AWS as a Developer Sam Julien
7. Top Take-Aways 🥡 Key AWS services for developers Big AWS concepts for developers Pitfalls to Look Out for The Certification Path
8. @samjulien Sam Julien samjulien.com Manager of Developer Relations at Auth0 Getting Started in Developer Relations & Guide to Tiny Experiments Instructor at egghead @samjulien Developer Microskills Newsletter
9. @samjulien
10. @samjulien https://auth0.com/ambassador-program https://auth0.com/apollo-program
11. Top Take-Aways 🥡 Key AWS services for developers Big AWS concepts for developers Pitfalls to Look Out for The Certification Path
12. Concepts
13. @samjulien What is the cloud anyway? ☁
14. @samjulien Easily grow infrastructure 🪴
15. @samjulien Capital vs. operating expenses 🤑
16. @samjulien Scalability 📈
17. @samjulien Vertical Scaling
18. @samjulien Vertical Scaling
19. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
20. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
21. @samjulien
22. @samjulien Elasticity 🪗
23. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
24. @samjulien
25. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
26. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
27. @samjulien Elasticity 🪗
29. Key AWS Services
30. @samjulien EC2
31. @samjulien Elastic Compute Cloud
32. @samjulien EC2 Instance
33. @samjulien Traditional Servers
34. @samjulien Lambda
35. @samjulien S3
36. @samjulien Simple Storage Service
37. @samjulien S3 Bucket
38. @samjulien Route 53
39. @samjulien Route 53 = DNS
40. @samjulien RDS
41. @samjulien Relational Database Service
42. @samjulien DynamoDB
43. @samjulien Amplify
44. Pitfalls
45. @samjulien
46. @samjulien Billing 💸
47. @samjulien Clean up after yourself 🧹
48. @samjulien Use labs 🔬
49. @samjulien Use the free tier 🆓
50. @samjulien
51. @samjulien Set up billing alarms ⏰
52. @samjulien
53. @samjulien
54. @samjulien Identity & Access Management (IAM) 🔐
55. @samjulien Principle of Least Privilege 🤫
56. @samjulien Set up MFA 🔏
57. @samjulien
58. @samjulien Use a sandbox account 🏖
59. Certifications
60. @samjulien Cloud Practitioner ☁
61. @samjulien Associate Exams
62. @samjulien Associate Exams Solutions Architect Associate SysOps Admin Associate Developer Associate
63. @samjulien Professional Exams
64. @samjulien Professional Exams Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional
65. @samjulien Specialty Exams
66. @samjulien Specialty Exams Advanced Networking Security Machine Learning Alex Skill Builder Data Analytics Database
67. Recap
70. Top Take-Aways 🥡 Key AWS services for developers Big AWS concepts for developers Pitfalls to Look Out for The Certification Path
71. Concepts
72. @samjulien What is the cloud anyway? ☁
73. @samjulien Easily grow infrastructure 🪴
74. @samjulien Capital vs. operating expenses 🤑
75. @samjulien Scalability 📈
76. @samjulien Vertical Scaling
77. @samjulien Vertical Scaling
78. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
79. @samjulien Horizontal Scaling
80. @samjulien Elasticity 🪗
81. Key AWS Services
82. @samjulien EC2
83. @samjulien Traditional Servers
84. @samjulien Lambda
85. @samjulien S3
86. Pitfalls
87. @samjulien Billing 💸
88. @samjulien Clean up after yourself 🧹
89. @samjulien Use labs 🔬
90. @samjulien Use the free tier 🆓
91. @samjulien Set up billing alarms ⏰
92. @samjulien Identity & Access Management (IAM) 🔐
93. @samjulien Principle of Least Privilege 🤫
94. @samjulien Set up MFA 🔏
95. @samjulien Use a sandbox account 🏖
96. Certifications
97. @samjulien Cloud Practitioner ☁
98. @samjulien Associate Exams Solutions Architect Associate SysOps Admin Associate Developer Associate
99. @samjulien Professional Exams Solutions Architect Professional DevOps Engineer Professional
100. @samjulien Specialty Exams Advanced Networking Security Machine Learning Alex Skill Builder Data Analytics Database
101. samj.im/start-aws-talk @samjulien
102. samj.im/start-aws-talk Thank you! @samjulien