This blog post just lists AWS whitepapers recommended per specific AWS exam. You can find AWS whitepapers recommendations on each AWS exam page, but in this post I just tried to aggregate all of them in one place. So in case you want to convert yourself into AWS guru your summer reading list is ready.
Foundational-level AWS Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)
Whitepapers:
Associate-level AWS Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02)
AWS Well-Architected webpage with various whitepapers linked, all links listed below
AWS Well-Architected and the Five Pillars
- AWS Well-Architected Framework Overview
- Operational Excellence Pillar
- Security Pillar
- Reliability Pillar
- Performance Efficiency Pillar
- Cost Optimization Pillar
AWS Well-Architected Lenses (extend the guidance offered by AWS Well-Architected to specific industry and technology domains)
- SaaS Lens
- FTR Lens (Partner Hosted Foundational Technical Review)
- Financial Services Industry Lens
- Analytics Lens
- Machine Learning Lens
- IoT Lens
- Serverless Applications Lens
- HPC Lens
FAQs:
AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C01)
Whitepapers:
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Practicing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery on AWS Accelerating Software Delivery with DevOps
- Microservices on AWS
- Serverless Architectures with AWS Lambda
- Optimizing Enterprise Economics with Serverless Architectures
- Running Containerized Microservices on AWS
- Blue/Green Deployments on AWS
FAQs:
- Amazon Simple Queue Service
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon API Gateway
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Identity and Access Management
- AWS Key Management Service
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C01)
Whitepapers:
- AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options
- How AWS Pricing Works
FAQs:
Professional-level AWS Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect – Professional (SAP-C01)
Whitepapers:
- AWS Key Management Service Best Practices
- Web Application Hosting in the AWS Cloud
- Migrating AWS Resources to a New Region
FAQs:
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C01)
Whitepapers:
FAQs:
Specialty-level AWS Certifications
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty (ANS-C00)
Whitepapers:
- Best Practices for VPCs and Networking in Amazon WorkSpaces Deployments
- Building a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure
- Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Connectivity Options
- AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency
- High Performance Computing on AWS Redefines What is Possible
- Integrating AWS with Multiprotocol Label Switching
Official Study Guide (paid resource/book):
FAQs:
AWS Certified Security – Specialty (SCS-C01)
Whitepapers:
- Security Pillar – AWS Well Architected Framework
- Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes
- AWS Security Best Practices
- Security at Scale: Logging in AWS
- AWS Key Management Best Practices
- AWS Security Incident Response Guide
- AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency
- Building a Scalable and Secure Multi-VPC AWS Network Infrastructure
- Security & Compliance Quick Reference Guide
FAQs
- AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- AWS Single Sign-On
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Amazon Inspector
- AWS Config
- AWS Shield
- AWS CloudTrail
- AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Amazon Macie
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
- AWS Certificate Manager
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Amazon Detective
- Amazon VPC
- AWS Direct Connect
- AWS Route 53
- AWS Artifact
AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty (MLS-C01)
Whitepapers:
- Power Machine Learning at Scale
- Managing Machine Learning Projects
- Machine Learning Foundations: Evolution of ML and AI
- Augmented AI: The Power of Human and Machine
- Machine Learning Lens – AWS Well-Architected Framework
FAQs:
- Amazon CodeGuru
- Amazon Comprehend
- Amazon Comprehend Medical
- Amazon Forecast
- Amazon Fraud Detector
- Amazon Kendra
- Amazon Lex
- Amazon Personalize
- Amazon Rekognition
- Amazon Textract
- Amazon Transcribe
- Amazon Translate
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
- Amazon Augmented AI
- AWS Deep Learning Containers
AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01)
Whitepapers:
- Configuring Amazon RDS as an Oracle PeopleSoft Database
- Determining the IOPS Needs for Oracle Database on AWS
- Comparing the Use of Amazon DynamoDB and Apache HBase for NoSQL
- Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on AWS
- Migrating Oracle Database Workloads to Oracle Linux on AWS
- Migrating Applications Running Relational Databases to AWS
- Modernizing the Amazon Database Infrastructure
- Strategies for Migrating Oracle Databases to AWS
- AWS Database Migration Service Best Practices
- Migration Strategy for Relational Databases
- Best Practices for Running Oracle Database on AWS
- Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services
- Getting Started with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)
FAQs:
- Amazon Aurora
- Amazon DocumentDB (with Mongo Compatibility)
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Neptune
- Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
- Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon Database Migration Service
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty (DAS-C01)
Whitepapers:
- Amazon EMR Migration Guide: How to Move Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop From On-Premises to AWS
- Big Data Options on AWS
- Lambda Architecture for Batch and Stream Processing
- Streaming Data Solutions on AWS with Amazon Kinesis
- Teaching Big Data Skills with Amazon EMR
- Reference Architecture: SQL Based Data Processing in Amazon ECS
FAQs:
- Amazon Athena
- Amazon EMR
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon CloudSearch
- Amazon Kinesis Video Streams
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
- Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
- Amazon ElasticSearch Service
- Amazon Managed Service for Kafka (MSK)
- Amazon Redshift
- Amazon QuickSight
- AWS Data Exchange
- AWS Glue
- AWS Lake Formation
- AWS Data Pipeline