AWS Ultimate Guide: From Beginners to Advanced

This is a very comprehensive book on AWS, from beginners to advanced. The book has extensive diagrams to help understand topics much easier way.

To make understanding the subject a smoother experience, the book is divided into the following sections:

Cloud Computing

AWS Fundamentals (What is AWS, AWS Account, AWS Free Tier, AWS Cost & Billing Management, AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure (part I)), IAM, EC2)

AWS Advanced (EC2 Advanced, ELB, Advanced S3, Route 53, AWS Global Cloud Infrastructure (part II), Advanced Storage on AWS, AWS Monitoring, Audit, and Performance),

AWS RDS and Databases (AWS RDS and Cache, AWS Databases)

Serverless (Serverless Computing, AWS Integration, and Messaging)

Container & CI/CD (Container, AWS CI/CD services)

Data & Analytics (Data & Analytics)

Machine Learning (AWS ML/AI Services)

Security (AWS Security & Encryption, AWS Shared Responsibility Model, How to get Support on AWS, Advanced Identity)

Networking (AWS Networking)

Disaster Management (Backup, Recovery & Migrations)

Solutions Architecture (Cloud Architecture Key Design Principles, AWS Well-Architected Framework, Classic Solutions Architecture)

Practice Tests

Includes AWS services/features such as IAM, S3, EC2, EC2 purchasing options, EC2 placement groups, Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, S3 Glacier, S3 Storage classes, Route 53 Routing policies, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, EFS, EBS, Instance Store, AWS Snow Family, AWS Storage Gateway, AWS Transfer Family,
Amazon CloudWatch, EventBridge, CloudWatch Insights, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon ElatiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, Amazon Timestream, Amazon Managed Blockchain, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, SQS, SNS, SES, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Kinesis Firehose, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Kinesis ECS, Amazon Kinesis ECR, Amazon EKS, AWS CloudFormation, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS CodeBuild, AWS OpsWorks, AWS CodeGuru, AWS CodeCommit, Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon QuickSight, AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, Amazon MSK, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Polly, Amazon Translate, Amazon Lex, Amazon Connect, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Comprehend Medical, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Forecast, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Personalize, Amazon Textract, Amazon Fraud Detector, Amazon Sumerian, AWS WAF, AWS Shield Standard, AWS Shield Advanced, AWS Firewall Manager, AWS GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, Amazon Detective, SSM Session Manager, AWS Systems Manager, S3 Replication & Encryption, AWS Organization, AWS Control Tower, AWS SSO, Amazon Cognito, AWS VPC, NAT Gateway, VPC Endpoints, VPC Peering, AWS Transit Gateway, AWS Site-to-Site VPC, Database Management Service (DMS), and many others.

In the last section, there are five practice test sets with answers, each containing 65 exam-like questions. Though these questions are more geared towards the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam, the knowledge gained from them may help you in many AWS certification exams.