I'd be lying if I said that since starting my new job at Amazon Web Services (AWS), I wasn't looking forward to writing about all the new things I was going to learn. Obviously there's the technology and services that make up the platform itself. But there's also the architectural best practices, the design patterns, and answers to questions like "how does moving to the cloud improve my performance/security/reliability?"

Admittedly, I have a lot to learn. With my background being mostly in the network space for my entire career, stepping out of that and into a software and cloudy world means I'm ramping up on a lot of new skills and knowledge.

I believe I'm not the only one on this journey of learning and that, like me, there a lot of folks who are having to learn the basics of the cloud and specifically, AWS.

This has inspired me to start a new, open-ended series of blog posts that I've dubbed AWS ABCs, targeted at people who have a lot of experience designing, operating, and architecting on-premesis systems but are now trying to up-skill by learning how to do the same in the cloud. These posts will focus on basic topics that are relevant to people just getting started on AWS and will provide pointers to resources where they can dive deeper.

You can see the list of posts in this series by clicking on the awsabc tag.

Happy learning!


Disclaimer: The opinions and information expressed in this blog article are my own and not necessarily those of Amazon Web Services or Amazon, Inc.