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📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide
og-aws: a practical AWS guide written by people who use it
A living reference for engineers who work with AWS, collecting links, tips, gotchas, and best practices that the official documentation leaves out.
Where the guide comes from
og-aws is a practical guide to Amazon Web Services written by and for engineers who use AWS. The README says it arose from discussion and editing over beers by several engineers with extensive AWS experience. The stated goal is a useful living reference that consolidates links, tips, gotchas, and best practices. Shell is the primary language and the license is CC-BY-4.0.
Service tables
A table of specific AWS services sits near the top, with basics, tips, and gotchas columns. The coverage starts with ALB, AMIs, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, Batch, Certificate Manager, CloudFront, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch, and continues through DynamoDB, EBS, EC2, ECS, EKS, and EFS, among many others. The three column format keeps each entry to a readable length.
The gap it fills
The README argues that plenty of AWS information already exists, but trustworthy and practical information is hard to find. Official documentation is described as sprawling and short on engineers' experiences, while blogs and Stack Overflow are not consistently up to date. That gap between volume and usefulness is the reason for the guide.
An honest status note
The README asks for help and describes itself as an early in progress draft that is far from comprehensive and likely to have omissions or errors. It sets expectations rather than overpromising, which is a fair thing to do for a living document that invites edits.
Beyond the service list
Other tables cover the tools and services market, AWS data transfer costs, service matrix comparisons, and product maturity and releases. The collection is broader than the service tables suggest, and the contents page keeps it navigable.
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