Welcome to awsnewbies.com, the study blog where it all began. This resource blog began in 2018 as a study blog for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam when I looked around the web and realized that there were non truly beginner friendly, jargon-free resources to go from “what the heck is the Cloud?” to passing the AWS CLF exam.
Since then, it has grown into super popular LinkedIn Learning courses with over 700,000 learners (available in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese), and a published book, titled AWS for Non-Engineers (available in English and Korean).
Through my work of attempting to make AWS and Cloud Computing accessible to people from all different backgrounds (especially non-tech/non-engineering backgrounds), I have had the honor of being named an AWS Community Hero since 2020.
With real life getting in the way, this website has been collecting dust for a good portion of the past decade, but now that I have more brain space to maintain it, I’ve decided to delete the whole website and rebuild from zero.
There will be growing pains as I begin adding back the tutorials and jargon-free resources, but I hope you’ll stick with me!
With love,
Hiroko Nishimura, M.Ed.