AWS Fundamentals : Getting Started with Amazon AWS

Discover how AWS regions function as geographically self-contained areas with their own laws, latency, costs, and regulatory and compliance requirements to meet your business needs.

See how a region comprises availability zones, each a data center with two to three buildings, connected by a fiber network to run apps across zones and protect against disasters.

Explore AWS fundamentals by inspecting a dynamic table app that uses elastic load balancer, EC2 instances, S3 storage, and RDS databases to serve traffic.

Discover how Amazon elastic compute cloud lets you provision virtual servers on demand, pay only for what you use, and resize with flexible instance types and EMI configurations.

Explore how AWS Lightsail streamlines hosting with preconfigured options like WordPress and e-commerce sites, a free first month plan, one-click deployments, and flexible stacks.

Explore AWS fundamentals by configuring a virtual private cloud and examining regions and availability zones, then dive into compute services with EC2, and storage with S3 and EBS.

Create a virtual private cloud to isolate your application, define subnets and IP ranges, attach an internet gateway, configure a route table, and launch a public subnet EC2 instance.

Configure a VPC with public and private subnets, place the database in the private subnet, and run two EC2 instances behind an elastic load balancer for high availability.

Discover AWS storage options that deliver durable, cost-effective, scalable storage for applications and archives. Compare object, block, and file storage with S3, EBS, and EFS to fit changing data needs.

Discover Amazon S3, a highly scalable, durable object storage service; learn to store data in buckets, manage endpoints, and control permissions with ACLs and bucket policies for backups and assets.

Create an S3 bucket, upload a file, inspect object properties such as owner, last modified, encryption, and size, and set permissions to public to share the object.

Elastic File System provides a regionally distributed, shared file system for multiple EC2 instances, unlike single-instance storage, enabling simultaneous access and connections to home or office networks.

Discover how relational database service (rds) on aws simplifies database management by handling hardware provisioning, patching, backups, and scaling. You focus on your schema, data, and application.

Explore how DynamoDB provides a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database with reliable performance at any scale, enabling automatic capacity provisioning and cross-region redundancy.

Explore the AWS management console to view a DynamoDB table and items. Create a new table with a primary key and populate it.

Monitor CloudWatch by collecting metrics and logs in a centralized location. Visualize statistics with dashboards and configure alarms to automate scaling and reduce latency.

Learn how elastic load balancer delivers a regional, highly available service that scales automatically with traffic, distributes requests across instances, and decouples front end web servers from an application diet.

Explore auto scaling behind an elastic load balancer, driven by cloud watch thresholds, to scale from two to four instances across subnets with a launch configuration and 60 percent utilization.

Apply the AWS shared responsibility model to security, defining what AWS protects and what you protect. Secure your apps from physical data centers to your data and encryption options.