AWS EC2 : AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

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Create an AWS free tier account by providing personal details and a valid card, verify email and phone, sign in to the AWS Management Console, and select basic support.

Sign in to the AWS management console as a route user, explore services by category, compute, analytics, database, security, and locate EC2 as the virtual server, noting free tier limits.

Discover how the root user provides full access, why everyday work should use an IAM user, and how to create an IAM user with administrator access and login URL.

Understand how AWS regions and availability zones map to data centers worldwide, delivering high availability and low latency while enabling regional or global service deployment.

Explore Amazon EC2 and learn to launch your first EC2 instance, configure Amazon Linux, instance type, SSH access, storage, and networking, plus basics of load balancing and auto scaling.

Demonstrate the complete lifecycle of an EC2 instance from start to stop, reboot, and terminate via the EC2 dashboard, while verifying host name, IP, and Amazon Linux 2023 details.

Explore how to choose the right EC2 instance type for workloads, covering general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, accelerated computing, storage optimized, HPC, and naming conventions.

Launch and choose the right EC2 instance type in the AWS console by selecting Linux, naming the instance, and picking a free tier eligible option to manage costs.

Configure an Apache web server on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance by updating the system, installing httpd, starting and enabling the service, and creating an index.html welcome page.

Explore how AWS EC2 security groups act as firewalls that control inbound and outbound traffic, enabling SSH and web server access through explicit rules and troubleshooting lab configurations.

Learn how EC2 security groups use allow rules, separate inbound and outbound traffic, and default deny, while being stateful, ensuring outbound traffic yields automatic inbound responses.

Explore Amazon EC2 IP address types, including public IP addresses that are internet addressable and private IP addresses not routable on the internet, plus elastic IP addresses as permanent addresses.

Learn how to allocate and associate elastic IP addresses with EC2 instances, including re-association and stopping behavior. Understand when elastic IPs incur charges and how to release unused addresses.

Master bootstrapping with user data to automatically install and start the Apache web server on an EC2 instance, and use launch templates or security group rules to enable http access.

Stop the EC2 instance to edit its user data. Then navigate to actions, instance settings, and edit user data, with the option to import a file.

Create an EC2 launch template from a Linux instance with a web server, preserving settings such as AMI, instance type, security group, and user data, then launch hundreds of instances.

Learn to launch EC2 instances from a launch template, adjust versions and settings like key pair and subnet, and access the web page via the instance's public IP.

Launch an EC2 instance from a launch template in the EC2 dashboard, then adjust the version, key pair, subnet, and user data as you deploy one or multiple instances.

AMI provides a fully configured, prepatched image for faster EC2 launches by hardening the operating system, enabling consistent deployment and avoiding runtime installations.

Explore AMIs, EC2 images with root storage, sharing options, regional use, cross-region backups, and learn to copy or delete them while accessing AWS marketplace and your own AMIs.

Learn to access a Linux EC2 instance from Windows using Putty and SSH, including setting up a key pair (.ppk), obtaining the public IP, and configuring remote login.

Access linux EC2 instances from Windows via PuTTY and SSH, using EC2 Instance Connect for keyless access; use the public IP and log in as ec2-user.

Learn to access a linux EC2 instance from windows using PuTTY, convert a pem file to ppk with PuTTYgen, and configure SSH access and security groups.

Learn to access a Linux EC2 instance remotely from macOS or Linux using a key pair and ssh, and secure the key permissions to 0400.

Learn how to access a Windows Server 2022 EC2 instance from Windows 10/11 machine by creating and decrypting the key pair (.pm or .pem) and enabling RDP on port 3389.

Launch a Windows Server 2022 EC2 instance, configure a free tier, create a key pair, and connect via RDP by decrypting the password with your private key.

Troubleshoot remote connectivity to EC2 instances by verifying private key, username, IP, and DNS, decrypting admin password when needed, and opening security group ports (22 for Linux, 3389 for Windows).

Terminate EC2 instances to avoid charges for volumes in elastic block storage. Tag instances for project or billing; enable termination protection and note that changing instance type requires stopping.

Explore enabling accidental stop and termination protection on EC2 instances, switching protections on or off, and manually selecting availability zones via subnet settings.

Manually select the availability zone to reduce latency or ensure high availability. Migrate an EC2 by creating an AMI, launching in the target zone, and reattaching the elastic IP.

Master AWS cloud billing management best practices by monitoring costs and understanding free tier limits. Enable IAM billing access and set up budgets with alerts to manage AWS expenses.