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Where To Go Next?

This section provides you information on where to go next, how to learn more about AWS, how to keep up to date with the latest information, and how to get help.

What’s Next?

There are several documents and tools that can help you learn how to get started with AWS, ranging from introductory guides to more advanced guides.

  • Getting Started with AWS. Introduces you to AWS and provides examples of what you can do with AWS and how to get started.

  • Hosting Websites on Amazon S3 in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide. Find instructions on how to create a static website using Amazon S3.

  • Deploying a WordPress Blog on Your Amazon EC2 Instance in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Microsoft Windows Guide. Find instructions on how to deploy a WordPress Blog on an Windows Amazon EC2 instance.

  • Getting Started Guides: AWS Computing Basics. The AWS Computing Basics guides introduce you to several key AWS services and components. You learn what these services are, why they are important, and how to use them. The guides provide a simple example architecture and walk you through a deployment that uses this architecture. For Linux, go to Getting Started Guide: AWS Computing Basics for Linux. For Windows, go to Getting Started Guide: AWS Computing Basics for Windows.

  • Getting Started Guides for common use cases. These getting started guides will show you how to combine various AWS cloud services to build out common use cases or solutions.

  • Documentation. Find introductions to each of the Amazon Web Services, advanced service features, API references, and other useful information for all of the AWS products. We recommend that you start with the Getting Started Guide for an overview of the service, and then move on to the more advanced guides.

  • SDKs. If you are a developer and want to use the SDKs, go to http://aws.amazon.com/code/. There are links to the SDKs for Android, iOS, Java, .NET, PHP, and Ruby.

Other Resources

There are other resources available at the AWS website such as tutorials, videos and webinars, training, forums, and technical whitepapers. Visit http://aws.amazon.com and click Developers to see a list of resources.

Keep Up to Date

AWS is constantly adding new features and services. To keep up to date with what’s going on you can get the latest news about AWS from the following websites:

  • Amazon Web Services Blog. Get the latest information about new features and services being launched as well as helpful links to resources.

  • What’s New. Get the latest announcements on all new features and services released.

  • Upcoming Events. Check out upcoming events and conferences that AWS will be hosting or participating in.

Get Help

AWS offers a variety of ways to get help for the services ranging from online help to personal support. To see a list of options, go to http://aws.amazon.com and click Support.