Amazon Web Services Basic Cloud Concepts: Introduction to Amazon Web Services

Name: Amazon Web Services Basic Cloud Concepts: Introduction to Amazon Web Services
Author: Demetria Crawford

Learn how to create and manage an AWS account

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Hello. My name is Demetria Crawford. In this lesson, we will create a free AWS account. AWS provides one year of free use of cloud services. Keep in mind that the free account provides access to many services provided by AWS, however, not all services are free. Services which are not free or stated as such. After one year, any services running will accrue charges to the credit card used to create the account. As you go through your training, make sure to eliminate all services once you complete your learning. In order to create an AWS account, you will need a unique email address, a cell phone to receive SMS messages, and a credit card. The first user created is the account root user. This is the super user of the account which has full rights to everything. It is a best practice to create additional users using the Identity and Access Management service which we will call IAM or I-A-M. And we'll use this to assign the appropriate rights to the users through groups, policies, and roles. Let's review the AWS free tier before we walk through creating an account. Let's go to aws.amazon.com website, which is what you see on the screen and go to pricing on the top left corner. Once you get to pricing, click on AWS free tier. The free tier account gives you access to over 100 AWS services. There are three different types of free trials. There's the short term free trial, which gives you immediate access to everything after activating your account. Everything meaning everything you're allowed to have access to with this free service, 12 months free, and always free. The difference between each account is the services and resources you're allowed to use for free. Let's take a look at what these entail if you will scroll down to see a list of services for each account type. Now the first thing we'll do, if you look to the left, you'll see the tier type and you'll see the 12 months free, always free, and trials. Click on 12 months free. We'll put a checkbox there. If you'll look to the right, you'll see the options of services that you get and how much of each resource. For example, the first one we have is the Amazon EC2 which is our virtual servers. For 12 months, we get up to 750 hours of instances that are actively running per month. That means you can have multiple EC2s or just one, but combined, you have 750 hours. You also get Amazon S3, which is a storage service. You get five gigabytes of standard storage for up to 12 months. Now this isn't a monthly fee or a monthly amount of resources. This is all together. You can have no more than five gigs of storage. Once it goes over five gigs, you can have a warning that's set that will let you know before you're charged. Next there's an AWS managed database service called RDS. You get 750 hours per month of database usage. And as you can see if you scroll down, there are a lot of options from machine learning to other types of storage which is what we have with elastic block storage, 30 gigs and EFS, five gigs. There are four pages of services here. So as you can see, you have a lot to work with under that option. Let's take a look at always free and uncheck the 12 months. Always free is Dynamo DB. You get up to 25 gigs of storage. Once it goes over 25 gigs, that's when you're charged. We have Lambda. You get up to 1 million requests. After that, you're charged. Lambda is a serverless option for service. And then next to it we have SNS. Amazon SNS is a notification tool that can send you SMS messages. You have up to 1 million published notifications. After that, that's when the charges begin. So once again, if we scroll down, we have a lot of options here that we can work with. For the sake of creating your account, for practicing, you wanna use the 12 months free, which is standard. This allows you to use a good base of AWS's core services for learning purposes. So now that we've gone through the services and you've seen what options you have available to you, let's walk through creating a free AWS account. There's multiple ways to create your account. If you look in the top right corner of this page, you'll see sign in to the console. If you click to sign in to the console, it will take you to the actual sign in page where you can sign in as a root user or an IAM user. However, we are not there yet. We haven't created our account. But at the bottom, you will see create a new AWS account. This is one way that you can create your account. However, because we're creating our first free account, if we scroll back up to the top, you will see create a free account. Let's click on create a free account. To sign up for AWS, you have to have a unique email address that will be used for your root user. In this case, I have a trial Gmail account that I've created to use for the purpose of creating this free account. Next, you wanna choose your AWS account name and verify the email address. You should receive an email from AWS to the email address provided to confirm the email address and that you are who you say you are. Take a look at the email and use the verification code and click verify. Now you have to create your root user password. It is a good recommendation to use a long password that has complexity to it for your root user. 'Cause remember, this is your administrator account that has access to everything. Click continue to go to the next step. Now we wanna add contact information to your account. Click I have read and agreed to the terms of the AWS customer agreement. And then finally, you'll enter your billing information. Once you've completed this step, you are ready to go. There are two more parts to this. One, you'll verify and continue this step. And the final step is that you will verify the account. Once you've done this, you will have successfully created your AWS free tier account. Once you've completed the final remaining survey questions, you should see a congratulations screen. In this lesson, we walked through creating an AWS free tier account and reviewed what services you have available to you. In our next lesson, we will go over AWS account management.

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Course Description

AWS provides access to over 60 cloud services with a free account for one year and upgrades available for additional fees. With data centers located around the world, you can create cloud solutions within its various regions and availability zones. This becomes invaluable for companies needing to do business in remote locations or even internationally. Access to regions and availability zones in or near countries that your company does business with keeps data from lagging and improves efficiency, productivity, and profits, since this can all be done without the added expense of on-site servers or data centers. Additionally, an AWS account can be set up with one root-user and multiple additional users for which permissions can be limited according to need. In these Introduction to Amazon Web Services lessons, you will learn how to create an AWS account, AWS account management, regions, availability zones, and the various AWS services.

What You'll Learn

Create an AWS account and set up its root user with additional permission-limited users
Manage an AWS account across the topics covered in Account Management Part 1 and Part 2
Describe AWS regions and availability zones located around the world
Identify the various AWS services available through the platform
Explain how regions and availability zones support doing business in remote or international locations

Key Takeaways

AWS provides access to over 60 cloud services, with a free account available for one year and upgrades available for additional fees.
AWS data centers are located around the world, letting you build cloud solutions within various regions and availability zones.
Using regions and availability zones near the countries a company does business with keeps data from lagging and improves efficiency, productivity, and profits.
Cloud solutions can be created without the added expense of on-site servers or data centers.
An AWS account can be set up with one root user plus multiple additional users whose permissions can be limited according to need.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Introduction to Amazon Web Services course cover?

It teaches how to create an AWS account, AWS account management, regions, availability zones, and the various AWS services.

What lessons are included in this course?

The course includes Creating an AWS Account, AWS Account Management Part 1, AWS Account Management Part 2, AWS Regions and Availability Zones, and an Overview of AWS Services.

How is an AWS account structured for users?

An AWS account can be set up with one root user and multiple additional users for whom permissions can be limited according to need.

Does AWS require paying for on-site servers or data centers?

No. AWS lets you create cloud solutions within its regions and availability zones without the added expense of on-site servers or data centers, and a free account is available for one year with upgrades available for additional fees.

What skills are associated with this course?

The associated skills include Amazon Cloud Directory, Amazon Simple Queue Services, Amazon Web Services, AWS CloudFormation, AWS SDK, and Web Services Concepts.