AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud platform on earth, hosting more than 30% of all public cloud workloads and powering everything from the smallest startup to half the Fortune 500. Whether you are migrating a single Linux server to EC2, designing a multi-region architecture for compliance, optimizing a runaway monthly bill, or preparing for an AWS certification, the books in this category give you hands-on, production-aware coverage of the AWS services that actually matter day to day.

This category focuses specifically on AWS for engineers with a Linux background — the audience that AWS itself was originally built for. Topics covered across the books include EC2 instance selection and lifecycle management, VPC networking design (subnets, route tables, security groups vs NACLs, NAT Gateway alternatives, Transit Gateway), S3 storage strategies (storage classes, lifecycle rules, versioning, Object Lock, encryption with SSE-S3 and KMS), IAM done right (users vs roles vs SSO, least-privilege policies, AssumeRole, MFA enforcement, IAM Access Analyzer), load balancing with ALB and NLB, DNS with Route 53, the modern CLI workflow, infrastructure-as-code with CloudFormation and Terraform, and the FinOps practices that turn a €5000 monthly bill into a €2000 monthly bill without breaking production.

The books here are written for engineers who already know Linux — who can SSH, read logs, write a shell script, and read a man page — and want a clear, opinionated, production-tested path into AWS. We do not waste pages re-explaining what a server is. We do explain why your NAT Gateway is suddenly costing more than your EC2 instances, why your gp2 volumes should be migrated to gp3 today, and how to design a VPC that does not need to be redesigned in eighteen months.

Recommended starting points: for an absolute beginner on AWS, start with the EC2 and VPC fundamentals book before touching anything else — almost every later service depends on understanding compute and networking first. For someone who already runs production Linux on AWS but is alarmed by the bill, jump directly to the AWS Cost Optimization book. For teams formalizing security and access patterns, the S3 and IAM in Practice book is the highest-leverage read. Browse the books below or check the bundles section for multi-book packages at a meaningful discount.