<story><title>Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day</title><text>Hi HN&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m an ex-AWS employee, now working for myself. Together with a friend of mine (who also recently left Amazon) we tried an experiment and put almost everything we know about AWS in one short digital book. We launched the book yesterday (xmas day) and it sold over $13K already: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dvassallo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210352939539161088&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I got paid for something I wrote, so I&amp;#x27;m still very new to this. But I&amp;#x27;m happy to share what I learned so far, so please feel free to ask me anything.&lt;p&gt;And here&amp;#x27;s a discount link for the book if you&amp;#x27;d like to check it out: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gum.co&amp;#x2F;aws-good-parts&amp;#x2F;hn</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JMTQp8lwXL</author><text>At a conceptual level, I support this, but there should be no need for a cottage industry to explain how to use AWS. The UI is a nightmare. I have to open my browser&amp;#x27;s element inspector to see full docker image names in ECR. That&amp;#x27;s atrocious for a product that brings in billions. Clearly the UI&amp;#x27;s deficiencies &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t matter&amp;quot; to AWS&amp;#x27; success, but they could try a smidge harder to make user&amp;#x27;s lives easier. But they likely won&amp;#x27;t, since it&amp;#x27;s business, and many of us using AWS aren&amp;#x27;t doing so by individual choice. But next time, when I am the decision maker, ...remember that, Amazon. People (individual contributors) do occasionally ascend upwards in technology organizations, and they &lt;i&gt;will&lt;/i&gt; know what it&amp;#x27;s like to use your technology, and it will absolutely influence decision making.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day</title><text>Hi HN&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m an ex-AWS employee, now working for myself. Together with a friend of mine (who also recently left Amazon) we tried an experiment and put almost everything we know about AWS in one short digital book. We launched the book yesterday (xmas day) and it sold over $13K already: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;dvassallo&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1210352939539161088&lt;p&gt;This is the first time I got paid for something I wrote, so I&amp;#x27;m still very new to this. But I&amp;#x27;m happy to share what I learned so far, so please feel free to ask me anything.&lt;p&gt;And here&amp;#x27;s a discount link for the book if you&amp;#x27;d like to check it out: https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gum.co&amp;#x2F;aws-good-parts&amp;#x2F;hn</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duxup</author><text>Is this a good book for dipping your toes into AWS?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m mostly a front end developer and have used Google&amp;#x27;s cloud services and others for my personal apps and experiments.&lt;p&gt;... but always found AWSs multitude of services and administration interfaces daunting.</text></comment>