5 Tips I Wish I'd Known When I Was New to AWS
Here's what I wish I'd known when I started building on AWS. These tips will help you plan your journey to build on AWS.
A couple examples: Do I need traditional VMs? Well, that maps to Amazon EC2. Am I building containerized applications? Amazon ECS. Am I going to use Kubernetes? Then Amazon EKS is the answer.
- What logs do I need and where do I store them?
- What metrics do I need to define and monitor?
- Do I need to set up budget alerts?
- How do I secure my applications and plan for high availability?
- Focus on understanding the basics
- Pick a fun project to get started
- Implement a foundation, build a project plan for your workloads
- Start small, celebrate the little wins!
- Understand the cost model
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