Absolute Beginners Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Create a new AWS account by entering email, password, and a name, then verify via phone and add payment details. Sign in to console and review the one-year free allocation.

Learn to set up AWS billing alerts, configure alternate contact and security questions, assign IAM access for billing, and create a monthly budget with email alerts.

Explore the AWS my account billing sections, including reports, cost allocation tax, payment information and history, consolidated billing, billing preferences, credits, and tax settings.

Learn how identity and access management in AWS works, explore use cases and best practices, and enable multi-factor authentication on the root account using a virtual MFA app.

Create and manage IAM users and groups, assign administrator, developer, and tester roles, and apply policies for console, programmatic, and read-only access.

Apply an IAM password policy with uppercase, lowercase, and number requirements, set 90-day expiry, and prevent last-password reuse, then verify on the IAM dashboard.

Create and attach IAM policies to groups or users, including a start/stop EC2 instances policy, and a self-managed MFA and password policy, then test by signing in as a developer.

Enable cloud trail to track api usage and gain visibility into who logs in, logs out, and changes, with events stored in an S3 bucket for investigation.

Explore a beginner friendly overview of AWS services, from compute and containers to storage, databases, networking, security, and developer tools, plus key options like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFront, and IAM.

Explain what the AWS CLI is, how it lets you interact with AWS services from the command line, and why automation with access keys enables secure, scripted operations.

Install the AWS CLI on Windows, macOS, or Linux, then create admin IAM access keys, configure them with aws configure --profile, and set region west one.

Set up and test the AWS CLI by configuring access keys and a profile, then list IAM users to verify access. Use help and documentation to explore available commands.

Explore the EC2 service, its dashboard and instances, and learn about launch templates, on-demand, spot, and reserved instances, with AMIs and EBS volumes and snapshots.

Explore AWS networking and security essentials, including security groups, elastic IPs, placement groups, key pairs, network interfaces, load balancing, auto scaling, and Systems Manager for scalable EC2 deployments.

Learn to launch a Linux EC2 instance in the AWS console, selecting a free-tier Amazon Linux AMI, configuring network, storage, tags, security, and creating a key pair.

Launch and secure a Linux EC2 instance by configuring security groups for SSH access on port 22, then connect using the appropriate SSH client with your key pair.

Log into the AWS console, select the Linux EC2 instance, and choose instance state to terminate it after confirming, initiating the shutdown and termination.

Launch and connect to a Windows Server 2016 EC2 instance, configure storage and security group rules for RDP, retrieve the administrator password, and terminate the instance when finished.

Learn how AWS security groups act as firewalls, filtering inbound and outbound traffic by port and destination, and attach them to load balancers and instances to enforce default deny.

Explore S3 as a scalable, pay-as-you-go storage service with high availability, durability, versioning, and multiple storage classes, plus fine-grained access via IAM and policies.

Explore how S3 stores data in buckets with unique DNS-compliant names, region-specific settings, cross-region replication, and static website hosting, using objects and keys for storage and retrieval.

Learn to create your first S3 bucket in AWS using the console with a unique DNS-compliant name and the EU Ireland region, then upload folders and files.

Learn how to download files from S3, apply a bucket policy to share objects publicly, and manage access with IAM permissions using the policy generator.

Enable versioning on an S3 bucket to track multiple object versions, then suspend or delete markers and manually remove older objects as needed.

Learn to upload and download files with the AWS CLI using the S3 cp command, including setting a bucket path, region, and profile, and exploring help and options.

Recap the basics of s3 bucket and object storage, creating a bucket, managing access with iam and bucket policy, and uploading or downloading objects between a local computer and s3.

Discover AWS free tier benefits for 12 months, including micro instance hours, API Gateway calls, and CloudFront storage to run a web app at no cost.

Conclude your absolute beginner AWS course by exploring next steps to build production infrastructure, including configuring VPCs, automating server configuration, implementing auto scaling, and monitoring.