Welcome to my learning journal / documentation (or companion resource in Andrew's word) for Andrews' Free AWS Cloud Project Bootcamp. I was the cohort 1 of this bootcamp which started at the end of February and ran til May-June 2023.

Back when I was starting, I didn't know how to work on a software development project in a smart way and how to share my knowledge with the community. I was so confused and lost and ended up dropping it in the middle of the race. Andrew was generous enough to give those still behind some time to catch up even after the end of the Camp, but I didn't make it. June passed, July came and went, then August, then September... Then Andrews' Terraform Project Bootcamp happened. So I jumped in and left all this behind.

The Terraform Camp was short and easy enough to follow. I was able to stick through it and brought this short book about Terraform (in Golang) to life. This experience taught me how to organise my learning in the way that can benefit not just me, but other fellow campers. So I'm coming back to where I left off to pick it up again. In fact, I'm starting from scratch, because it's been a long time I need a refresh.

If there is anyone else who is in the same journey, I hope this short book about AWS Cloud can help you along and offer you some insights.

• Andrews' Official Bootcamp Website
• The Official Complete Playlist
• The Bootcamp Outline

• Each page documents the workflow of each development unit.
• Then follows a discussion on various technologies that Andrew mentions or used in the video, but not covered in depth; or anything that's featured and worth having a closer look.

• Andrew's videos contain the "raw process" of software development in real life - meaning the videos often contain the trials and errors and the bruises and burns. So expect that there are a fair bit of progress and setbacks, troubleshooting, writing lines of code and then removing them or editing them all over again. My book does not document the whole process in a timely sequence. It documents only the resulting bits that are implemented in the final code.

The whole project design and the resulting source code is the sole creation of the Andrews, not mine. I try to explain things in my own words in this book, but I also would love to highlight and credit the Andrews' insights and their teachings. So bits that have the maple leaves are direct quotes from the Andrews from the videos.

This book is written under the Creative Commons NonCommercial license. I do not allow commercial use because of the reasons stated in the following disclaimer (the original material is not created nor coming from me so I am not in the position to allow or reject such use). If you are going to use any of the content in this book for any purposes, please contact the right author/owner/creator.

The entirety of the Free AWS Cloud Project Bootcamp content used throughout this book was developed and offered for free by Andrew Brown and Andrew Bayko. The Andrews' original project and the source code can be found here on their Github repo and the video playlist here.

I do not claim the authorship of the learning curriculum, code, development methodology, logic or any other intellectual assets and knowledge, and/or derivatives that are produced by the Andrews and/or coming from their bootcamp, video series, and their Github repository.

I am authoring the explanations of the code and the project. I am creating all the goofy illustrations used throughout the book (some background or partial images are not my creation. I am stating the source and crediting the original creators whenever necessary and as much as I can. If I haven't and you know that the work belongs to another original creator, please contact me so I can include the credit/source). I hope you find my book, visual creations and drops of humour here and there a pleasant companion through your AWS Project journey.

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