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💡 In this section we will cover any terms, organizations, people, or tools that are NOT strictly web services, i.e. they're not part of the AWS offering. Rather, they're supporting, referencing or surrounding AWS, and can be beneficial for different scenarios and people.

Free Resources from the AWS Community

Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/learn/lecture/20056488

• AWS News Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/
  • Stay up to date with the latest from AWS
• AWS Whitepapers & Guides: https://aws.amazon.com/whitepapers
  • Technical content authored by AWS and the AWS community
• AWS re:Post (formerly AWS Forums): https://repost.aws/
  • Portal for questions & curated knowledge (akin to what StackOverflow is for developers)
• AWS Solutions Library (formerly AWS Quick Starts): https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/
  • Vetted technology solutions for the AWS cloud → find an already successful implementation of a common solution architecture
  • e.g. How to implement live streaming in AWS? Here's an example of such an implementation: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/live-streaming-on-aws

AWS re:Post (formerly AWS Forums)

Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/learn/lecture/33934150

• 🔧 AWS-managed Q&A portal offering crowd-sourced, expert-reviewed answers
  • 💡 Similar to what StackOverflow is for developers
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• Community members can earn reputation points
  • Provide accepted answers & review answers from others
  • Build up community expert status
• Questions from AWS Premium Support customers that do not receive a response from the community are passed on to AWS Support engineers → guarantees that these customers get a high quality response no matter what
• ‼️ AWS re:Post NOT intended for questions that are time-sensitive or involve any proprietary information!!
  • Use AWS official support in those sensitive cases!

AWS Knowledge Center

Ref: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-cloud-practitioner-new/learn/lecture/29102314

• 🔧 Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) about AWS
  • Part of AWS re:Post
• Link: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center