Learn AWS with me :: Episode 1 : Introduction

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I've recently became aware of a movement which aims to replace violent/inappropriate sayings with alternatives that serve the same purpose, but without the negative associations. Here's a great one I came across yesterday: Feeding 2 birds with one scone. This precisely describes what I'm trying to do on most days: In a word, I'm always looking for a twofer

And I found the perfect one today. Here the two goals I am currently pursuing:

I would love to build my own AWS skills, possibly even work through their entire certification hierarchy, And
I have a new business venture (DevSkillDojo.com) which requires careful curation of learning resources for technical skills

Instead of treating them as two independent goals, I realized, that if I "Learn in Public", then I'd be able to achieve both goals by expending a single amount of effort.

I can truly have my cake AND eat it.

Woohoo.

So I will be using the coming weeks (or months) to systematically explore the AWS ecosystem, one topic at a time.

Each topic will last exactly 1 week
During the week I will research the topic/service, publishing any lessons learnt on Twitter
I'll curate the best learning resources for that topic and share them on Twitter
I'll document the important learning concepts and prerequisite skills in the DevSkillDojo.com KnowledgeBase
At the end of the week, I'll write a summary article on the topic, linking to the various resources collected during the week.

The order of topics to be addressed will probably be a bit fluid, but I suspect we'll start of with: