AWS in the Trenches: Advanced Cloud Engineering for Senior Developers

This book targets senior developers who already know how to spin up an EC2 instance and deploy a Lambda function. You've read the getting-started guides. You've passed (or ignored) the certifications. Now you need to understand what actually happens when your DynamoDB table gets 50,000 requests per second, why your Lambda cold starts spike at 3 AM, and how IAM policy evaluation actually works when five different policy types collide.

Every chapter bridges what the documentation tells you to what production systems actually demand. Code examples are provided in both Python and Java — the two dominant languages in AWS ecosystems. Diagrams explain the internal mechanics that AWS abstracts away but that you need to understand when things break.

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