AWS book now available free in full — AWS: From Basics to Production Operations

The new book, AWS: From Basics to Production Operations, is now up on the site. All 33 chapters across six parts are open to read, with no purchase flow. It is not a book for memorizing certification exam scope. It follows one continuous path, from start to finish, for putting real services on AWS and operating them without downtime.

I wrote this book for developers new to the cloud, for those who have only clicked through the console, and for those still missing IaC and governance. Part 1, Getting Started with AWS, builds your mental map through IAM and cost management. Part 2, Core Infrastructure, covers the core resources like EC2, VPC, S3, and RDS. Part 3, Containers and Serverless, teaches ECS Fargate and Lambda. Part 4, IaC and CI/CD in Practice, moves you from the console to Terraform code. Part 5, Operations, Security, and Cost, expands into the operator’s view with VPC in depth, security governance, and disaster recovery. Part 6, the Capstone, walks you through deploying a fullstack app on ECS Fargate end to end.

The 27 posts I had been publishing for free on the site, AWS Basics, Intermediate, Advanced, and in Practice, are all still there. This book reorganizes those 27 posts into one path from fundamentals to production operations, then adds six new chapters. The six additions are VPC in depth, security governance (Organizations and SCP), disaster recovery and backup, Lambda in depth, a fullstack capstone on ECS Fargate, and an appendix bridging to the CLF-C02 certification.

The book is open in full, for free. It is funded by site ads and Ko-fi support (ko-fi.com/schoolofweb), and there is no purchase flow. If even one chapter helps you, your support helps make time for the next revisions and the next book.

You can find the structure, recommended entry points, and frequently asked questions on the AWS: From Basics to Production Operations book page.