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This is great. I've been working on AWS for close to 10 years now and an open guide is something I both need and want to contribute to. Many of us have simple

This is great. I've been working on AWS for close to 10 years now and an open guide is something I both need and want to contribute to. Many of us have simple goals on AWS. The official AWS docs are thorough, but are too technical. There are blog posts about anything, they can be hard to find or get out of date. I hope this open guide helps us all get our jobs done faster and easier!

zalzal 10y ago
Very glad to hear. Its this sentiment exactly that led us to get this started. We all have 100s of valuable tricks and gotchas we learn over the years, but 99% of the time fail to write down and share them helpfully. Do join us on Slack/GitHub and help us get your tips included, too.
- nzoschke 10y ago
  Done and done. I was pleasantly surprised to see my ECS tips already linked. I hope I can remix this knowledge for the guide! https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/
- jsingleton 10y ago
  I have the same issue with not writing stuff down and there are plenty of gotchas. I finally got round to starting a 3 part blog series on AWS vs Azure, vendor lock-in and pricing confusion [^0], but I'll see if I can contribute to this too. [^0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-confusion-part-1/ https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...
zappo2938 10y ago
I am relatively new to building larger apps. I've worked for a coulple years building with Drupal and hacking PHP. Now I only want to develope full stack JavaScript. I really enjoy it's messy nature. Last week I discovered that user uploaded files are not persistent on a Heroku hosted app. To solve that problem, I created an AWS S3 account which is the first time I've used AWS. I quickly figured out to exchange Node.js fs functions with the AWS SDK. Setting up a bucket and a test bucket easy. And, configuring IAM rules is intuitive. You're right. Their docs are far beyond the scope of what I needed to get started. Interestingly, I would rather have Google searches about AWS show Stack Exchange answers but most of the first results are all Amazon documentation which is far more difficult to read and sort.

zalzal 10y ago

Very glad to hear. Its this sentiment exactly that led us to get this started. We all have 100s of valuable tricks and gotchas we learn over the years, but 99% of the time fail to write down and share them helpfully. Do join us on Slack/GitHub and help us get your tips included, too.

nzoschke 10y ago
Done and done. I was pleasantly surprised to see my ECS tips already linked. I hope I can remix this knowledge for the guide! https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/
jsingleton 10y ago
I have the same issue with not writing stuff down and there are plenty of gotchas. I finally got round to starting a 3 part blog series on AWS vs Azure, vendor lock-in and pricing confusion [^0], but I'll see if I can contribute to this too. [^0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-confusion-part-1/ https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...

zappo2938 10y ago

I am relatively new to building larger apps. I've worked for a coulple years building with Drupal and hacking PHP. Now I only want to develope full stack JavaScript. I really enjoy it's messy nature. Last week I discovered that user uploaded files are not persistent on a Heroku hosted app. To solve that problem, I created an AWS S3 account which is the first time I've used AWS. I quickly figured out to exchange Node.js fs functions with the AWS SDK. Setting up a bucket and a test bucket easy. And, configuring IAM rules is intuitive. You're right. Their docs are far beyond the scope of what I needed to get started. Interestingly, I would rather have Google searches about AWS show Stack Exchange answers but most of the first results are all Amazon documentation which is far more difficult to read and sort.