Updates, Lifecycle & Status
Track what is new, read the announcements, and check whether AWS is healthy right now.
The canonical feed of every new service, feature, and Region launch.
Deep-dive launch posts and walkthroughs from AWS, written for builders.
Live global service-health and event status across all Regions.
See exactly which services are available in which Region before you design.
Corey Quinn’s widely-read, no-nonsense weekly roundup of AWS news.
Pricing & Cost
Estimate, compare, and optimise what your AWS footprint will cost.
Build and estimate the cost of a full solution before you deploy.
Compare every EC2 instance type — specs and on-demand/spot pricing side by side.
Find Spot capacity with the lowest interruption rates and biggest savings.
Per-service pricing details and the free-tier reference.
Free-tier limits and always-free services — start hands-on labs without spending.
Governance, Security & Identity
Author IAM policies, test permissions, and look up every action.
Generate IAM, S3, SQS, and SNS policy JSON from a guided form.
Test whether a policy allows or denies specific actions before you apply it.
Every action, resource, and condition key for every AWS service.
Searchable IAM actions, resources, and condition keys — fast least-privilege lookups.
Architecture & Frameworks
Proven reference designs and the frameworks AWS builds on.
Reference architectures, diagrams, and best-practice guidance.
The six pillars for designing and reviewing any workload.
Vetted, ready-to-deploy solutions and Guidance for common use cases.
Patterns, playbooks, and migration strategies from AWS experts.
Official self-paced, hands-on workshops for almost every AWS service and scenario.
Hands-on labs implementing each Well-Architected pillar in your own account.
Networking & Compute
Plan IP ranges and latency; find the right AMI and Region.
Authoritative JSON of all AWS service IP ranges for firewall and SG rules.
Measure live latency from your browser to every AWS Region.
Find the exact Ubuntu AMI ID for any Region and release (by Canonical).
Interactive map of Regions, Availability Zones, and edge locations.
Developer, IaC & Tooling
Generate infrastructure as code, explore constructs, and reference the CLI.
Generate CloudFormation, CDK, or Terraform from your existing AWS resources.
Discover and reuse community + AWS CDK constructs for CDK/Terraform/CloudFormation.
Every resource type’s properties and syntax for IaC authoring.
Complete command and option reference for the AWS CLI.
Draw and visualise AWS architecture diagrams, live from your account.
AWS’s serverless hub — patterns, snippets, and reference architectures for Lambda, EventBridge, and Step Functions.
The official icon set for drawing AWS architecture diagrams — PowerPoint, draw.io, and SVG assets.
Learning & Community
Official docs, training, Q&A, and the best community exam prep.
Official training, learning plans, and practice for AWS certifications.
The complete official documentation for every AWS service.
AWS-managed Q&A community for technical questions and answers.
Popular community cheat sheets and practice exams for AWS certifications.
Official channel — service deep-dives, re:Invent sessions, and This is My Architecture.
“Community” tools are independent, free, and widely trusted — but they are not AWS products. Always validate against official documentation before relying on them for production decisions. More cloud platforms coming soon.
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