helpful_links.txt

#How to stay up to date with AWS:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
https://aws.amazon.com/new/

#Design principles
https://wa.aws.amazon.com/wat.design_principles.wa-dp.en.html
https://wa.aws.amazon.com/wat.pillar.security.en.html

#Signing up for a new account
https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start
https://aws.amazon.com/free

#Cool interactive global infrastructure map
https://www.infrastructure.aws/

#AWS official icons (use these for everything!)
https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/

#Third party tool for generating a VPC CloudFormation template
https://asecure.cloud/p/securevpc/

#Third party page for comparing EC2 instances "apples to apples"
https://www.ec2instances.info/

#How to share a Cloud9 environment, even cross-account"
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/share-environment.html

#Comparison of all EBS volume types including upper limits on size and performance
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSVolumeTypes.html

#Deep dive explanation for RDS Aurora Serverless
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/aurora-serverless.how-it-works.html

#The three types of Load Balancers
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/load-balancer-types.html

#AWS Auto Scaling is more than just EC2
https://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/features/

#Elastic Beanstalk has its own CLI
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/eb-cli3.html

#AWS Permissions policy evaluation logic (EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS)
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference_policies_evaluation-logic.html

#GuardDuty active finding types
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_finding-types-active.html

#AWS Inspector rules packages
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/userguide/inspector_rule-packages.html

#CloudWatch Logs metric filter syntax
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/FilterAndPatternSyntax.html

#Deep dive explanation into EC2 Launch Templates
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-launch-templates.html