AWS for Non-Engineers

If you are a UX/UI designer, product manager, front-end engineer, executive, or just someone who wants to build an AWS cloud vocabulary and better understand what your technical team is talking about - this book is for you.

"AWS for Non-Engineers" by Hiroko Nishimura captured my attention when I sorted the pile of e-books purchased over the past two years on sales. It is easy to read and relatively short - 174 pages total, but if you are not planning to get certified as a cloud practitioner, skip Chapter 7. You can read merely 121 pages in a couple of evenings.

I briefly read all the remaining 6 chapters (Introduction to Cloud Computing, Cloud Concepts, AWS Global Infrastructure, Core Services, Security and Compliance, Billing and Pricing) and definitely can recommend it to non-engineers. Suppose you wonder why I decided to read it. In that case, the answer is simple - it helps to view the IT world from a different angle and ease future communication with non-technical decision-makers.

The book may get too technical for a complete beginner, though. I bet you may need to revisit Chapter 4 "Core AWS services" a few times because the chance that you forget, for example, what is CloudTrail vs CloudWatch, is high - too many services mentioned to digest in one go. If you feel that way, focus on the first two chapters. You will still get a great boost in understanding.

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AWS for Non-Engineers (Hiroko Nishimura; Manning, 2022; 174 pages)