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AWS Fundamentals

AWS is the most widely used cloud infrastructure platform in the world. It offers severals service to help engineers focus less on managing the infrastructure and more on building awesome software. In this series, we'll take our the first steps inside the AWS castle.

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10
Run Time
1h 43m
Difficulty
Intermediate
Last Updated
Feb 21, 2023
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    1. Introduction to AWS

      Let's begin with a brief history of AWS, followed by a tour of the AWS console. We'll also learn a bit about some of the most popular computer and storage services offered by AWS.

    2. Creating EC2 Instances

      An EC2 instance is what we call a server. In this lesson, we're going to create an instance, discover all the available configuration options, and learn how we can securly connect via SSH.

    3. Networking and VPCs

      A VPC allows you to isolate your resources into private networks and control how they commuicate with the public internet. Let's dive into that.

    4. VPCs in Action

      Next, let's create a few public and private EC2 instances and see how we can connect to them from our machine, and how they connect to the public internet.

    5. Authorization Through IAM

      To assist us AWS customers and secure our accounts and the resources within, AWS offers a service called IAM. We'll explore it in this lesson.

    6. Infrastructure as Code

      AWS provides a services called CloudFormation that allows us to automate provisioning resources by writing code in the YAML or JSON format. Let's explore that in this episode.

    7. Cloud Storage on S3

      Storing your files in the cloud comes with great benefits. Let's explore the S3 service to understand its benefits, security aspects, and cost.

    8. Managed Databases

      Managing databases can certainly take a lot of work. Luckily, AWS offers a service called RDS that helps us in this regard. Let's explore it in this lesson.

    9. Budgeting and Cost Savings

      Let's next review how to calculate your infrastructure costs on AWS, and how to utilize the cost savings plans.

    10. The Good Parts of AWS

      To wrap up, in this final lesson, let me show you the AWS services that you, as a web developer, will likely most benefit from. Thanks for watching!

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