> You should mention it costs $20 for information that can be found for free anywhere on the web. While other users answer the question, you simply refer to your piggy bank, shameless.
Yep, it costs $20. Basically the cost of chinese food for 2, to ensure guaranteed victory in learning the essentials of AWS' platform while having a guided tour on how to deploy a fault tolerant web app with Amazon ECS from start to finish.
You can definitely learn everything for free, but the value in a course is that you're getting a cohesive learning path that was carefully planned and tested. You get a system that you can apply to your own projects and plenty of source code to reference.
You're paying the $20 so you can avoid spending 6 months trying to figure out everything on your own while stringing together a bunch of half-assed blog posts and tutorials.
You pay the small fee for certainty and it's well worth it because your time (and sanity) is not infinite.
