Skip to content

AWS General

News

Official sources

Marc-Henry Website : https://mhg.ovh/Links/Cloud/aws-general.html

AWS What's New (short): https://aws.amazon.com/new

AWS News Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws

AWS Press Releases: https://press.aboutamazon.com/press-releases/aws

AWS Podcast (EN): https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast

AWS Podcast (FR): https://aws.amazon.com/fr/blogs/france/podcast

Amazon Linux 2 Release Notes: https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes

News blog by Danny Steenman

https://awsfeed.com

API Changes

https://awsapichanges.info

Simple list of last 30 days news

https://marek.rocks

Last Week in AWS (Weekly newsletter)

https://www.lastweekinaws.com

Guides & Co

The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services

https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws

Well-Architected Framework

Framework doc : https://wellarchitectedlabs.com

Framework map : https://wa.aws.amazon.com/map.html

Cheat sheets

Tutorial Dojo Cheat sheets of many services

https://tutorialsdojo.com/aws-cheat-sheets

Service diagrams

Infographics of services features

https://www.awsgeek.com

Use cases / Quick tuto

Official use cases for featured services

https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/use-cases

AWS Management Tools Lab

Fundamentals and technical deep dive into AWS Service Catalog, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Config, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS CloudFormation and ITSM integrations.

http://www.awsmanagementweek.com

Learn Python On AWS - Workshop

This workshop will teach you the basics of the python programming language using Amazon Web Services.

https://learn-to-code.workshop.aws

EC2 Instance types comparaison

https://ec2instances.info

EC2 spot instances workshops

https://ec2spotworkshops.com

DynamoDB Guide

https://www.dynamodbguide.com

Open Datasets

100+ datasets hosted on S3 buskets with SNS updates. Few exemples : OpenStreetMap, atmospheric models from Météo-France, NASA NEX, Rapid7 FDNS ANY.

https://registry.opendata.aws

AWS Stash

A collection of AWS related videos, podcasts, code repositories, whitepapers, and feature releases, all in a single, easy to search interface.

https://awsstash.com

AWS Video Catalog

AVC collects all the official Amazon videos related to each individual AWS Service and categorizes them.

https://awsvideocatalog.com

The Cloud Market

It provides a catalog of EC2 images and statistical information for the AWS cloud.

https://thecloudmarket.com

Dev

AWS Labs

https://github.com/awslabs

Boto 3 docs

Boto 3 is the AWS SDK for Python.

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html

AWS CLI v2 docs

https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/index.html

Tools

AWS Pricing Calculator

The first (S3 static website) will be replaced by the second (.aws TLD) soon.

https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

https://calculator.aws

EC2 Reachability Test

http://ec2-reachability.amazonaws.com

CloudPing

Latency from your browser to each region

https://www.cloudping.info

Checks availability of the selected Instance type in the AZs

https://canyouaz.com

https://thameera.com/awsip / Self-hosted

Backup AWS resources

Collection of Lambda functions to backup AWS resources.

https://github.com/ned-kelly/backup-and-bcp-for-aws

VPC Studio

VPC CIDR calculator with codegen

https://houqp.github.io/vpcstudio

awsometag

A tool to tag AWS resources in a unified manner

https://github.com/mhausenblas/awsometag

awsprofile

Simple tool to easily switch between aws profiles.

https://github.com/ivours/awsprofile

dbdecision

Compares Aurora to DynamoDB

http://dbdecision.info

Cloudcraft

Create smart AWS diagrams

https://cloudcraft.co

AWS Account Controller

Self-service creation and deletion of sandbox-style accounts

https://github.com/iann0036/aws-account-controller

Code Maven

AWS Lambda codes examples

https://code-maven.com/slides/aws-lambda/intro

AWS Super Simple Storage Calculator

S3 price calculator from "Last Week in AWS" founder.

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/aws-super-simple-storage-calculator

Former2

Former2 allows you to generate Infrastructure-as-Code outputs from your existing resources within your AWS account.

https://former2.com

AWS Account Controller

Self-service creation and deletion of sandbox-style accounts.

https://github.com/iann0036/aws-account-controller

AWS Cloud Ping (speed test)

This online tool estimates the network latency from your browser to Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 data centers around the world.

https://www.cloudping.cloud/aws

Cloudkeeper

Cloudkeeper is a standalone CLI tool that periodically collects a list of resources in cloud accounts, provides metrics about them, and can clean them up.

https://github.com/mesosphere/cloudkeeper

AWS Perspective

Visualization tool that quickly generates architecture diagrams of AWS Cloud workloads.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-perspective

AWS's ip-ranges.json (changes)

This repository tracks changes to that file, and based off a trigger on the SNS topic automatically produces this chart showing how what percentage of the Internet's IPv4 address space AWS is in control of.

https://github.com/seligman/aws-ip-ranges

The AWS Data Transfer Cost Explorer

The AWS Data Transfer Cost Explorer tool analyzes the billed Data Transfer items in your AWS account and presents them visualized on a map.

https://github.com/c1982/awsdtc

AWS Regions List

https://awsregion.info

cloud-nuke

A tool for cleaning up your cloud accounts by nuking (deleting) all AWS resources within it

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/cloud-nuke

Cloud training platforms

A Cloud Guru : https://acloud.guru

Linux Academy : https://linuxacademy.com

Cloud Academy : https://cloudacademy.com

Udemy : https://www.udemy.com

Whizlabs : https://www.udemy.com

Tips from AWS documentation

Give access another AWS account to your account

Usefull for temporary access without sharing credentials (eg. audit).

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles_common-scenarios_third-party.html

AWS IP address ranges

Updated list of all IPv4 and IPv6 ranges in JSON format.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-ip-ranges.html

AWS endpoints

All endpoints by services and regions.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html

Posts / Publications

Cloud Adoption Statistics for 2019

https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/cloud-adoption-statistics

AWS Starter Kit - 2020 Edition

I’m often asked by many colleagues, friends, or Twitter followers where to start with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will try to explain where you should start in 2020.

https://zoph.me/posts/2020-07-11-aws-starter-kit-2020-edition

How many services does AWS actually have?

http://mypowershell.space/index.php/2020/01/07/how-many-services-does-aws-actually-have

The million dollar engineering problem

https://segment.com/blog/the-million-dollar-eng-problem

Anatomy of AWS Lambda

https://dev.to/sosnowski/anatomy-of-aws-lambda-1i1e

AWS and their Billions in IPv4 addresses

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/aws-and-their-billions-in-ipv4-addresses-8b1820fb24c1

Getting started with IPv6 on AWS

https://cloudonaut.io/getting-started-with-ipv6-on-aws

Comparing API Gateways on AWS

https://blog.cloudcraft.co/comparing-api-gateways-on-aws