AWSFoundational
AWS Foundations
Sam Okonkwo
A structured on-ramp for engineers new to AWS who would rather build the right mental model than memorize service names.
$39248 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-11-3
Reading track
The AWS Mastery Track
Five titles that take you from the resource model through event-driven design, architecture review, and the certification that proves it.
$219List price $250Save $31
Five titles, $250 separately — $219 together. You save $31. Every title is delivered DRM-free in PDF and EPUB, and updates to a new edition are included.
What’s included
Five complete titles. Each one is also sold separately, at the price shown, if you only need part of the track.
- AWSAdvanced
The Well-Architected Mind
Nadia Oyelaran
A working architect's tour of the AWS design decisions that are expensive to reverse, and how to recognize them before you commit.
$59List price$74Save $15412 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-01-4 - AWSAdvanced
Event-Driven on AWS
Nadia Oyelaran
Exactly what each AWS messaging primitive guarantees, and how to build systems whose correctness does not depend on hope.
$59372 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-14-4 - AWSFoundational
The Solutions Architect Exam
Nadia Oyelaran and Aaron Whitfield
Certification preparation built on real architectural reasoning, so the knowledge survives the exam by more than a week.
$44List price$54Save $10344 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-16-8 - Multi-cloudPractitioner
The Cost Constraint
Aaron Whitfield
Cost as an engineering constraint rather than a quarterly surprise, with the architectural moves that actually move the number.
$49306 pp · ISBN 978-1-959321-08-3
Reading order
Our editors sequenced this track. You can read it in any order you like, but this is the path where each title pays for the next.
Step 1: AWS Foundations
Foundational · AWS · 248 pages
Start here. It fixes the vocabulary — accounts, regions, identity, the compute and storage primitives — that every later title assumes you already carry.
Step 2: The Well-Architected Mind
Advanced · AWS · 412 pages
With the primitives in hand, this is the judgment layer: which decisions are one-way doors, where state actually lives, and how blast radius is drawn.
Step 3: Event-Driven on AWS
Advanced · AWS · 372 pages
Apply that judgment to the least forgiving surface on AWS — delivery guarantees, ordering, idempotency, and replay across five services with five different contracts.
Step 4: The Solutions Architect Exam
Foundational · AWS · 344 pages
Consolidation. The exam's four domains re-cross the same ground from a different angle, which is exactly what makes it useful revision rather than cramming.
Step 5: The Cost Constraint
Practitioner · Multi-cloud · 306 pages
Finish with the bill. Egress topology and commitment shape are architectural decisions, and they only make sense once you know what you are architecting.