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AWS Whitepapers

CLI

What Is the AWS Command Line Interface?

Install the AWS CLI Using the MSI Installer

Using the AWS CLI to Work with AWS Services

Infrastructure

The AWS Cloud spans 76 Availability Zones within 24  launched geographic Regions and 1 Local Region around the world, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more Regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong SAR, Sweden, and a second AWS GovCloud Region in the US.

AWS Global Infrastructure

Regions and Availability Zones

Region Table

An edge location is where end users access services located at AWS. They are located in most of the major cities around the world and are specifically used by CloudFront (CDN) to distribute content to end user to reduce latency.

AMAZON AWS REGIONS VS AVAILABILITY ZONES VS EDGE LOCATIONS VS DATA CENTERS

https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/faqs/

The Floodgates Are Open – Increased Network Bandwidth for EC2 Instances

Amazon Web Services’ secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is storage for the Internet.

Storage Overview

Getting Started with Amazon Simple Storage Service

Storage Classes

You can configure an Amazon S3 bucket to function like a website. 

Setting up a Static Website

Orchestration

Elastic Bean Stalk

Azure App Service vs AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Comparison of PaaS Providers

Logging

Server logs

EC2

EC2 User guides

Spot Instance Interruptions

Amazon EC2 Key Pairs

How do I replace a lost key pair for my EC2 Windows instance?

Instances and AMIs

VPC

Virtual Private Cloud

VPC Peering

Databases

Encrypting Amazon RDS Resources

Redshift

Redshift Enhanced Routing

What is DynamoDB ?

DynamoDB Throughput Capacity for Reads and Writes

Read Consistency

Tools

EC2 VM Import Connector

Command Line Interface

IAM

Enabling a Virtual Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) Device (Console)

HowTo: Use the Google Authenticator as a virtual MFA Device on the Amazon AWS Console

Notification

SQS FAQs

Security

https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/

https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/

AWS CloudTrail is an AWS service that helps you enable governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account. Actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service are recorded as events in CloudTrail. Events include actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs and APIs.

What Is AWS CloudTrail?

AWS Web Application Firewall

AWS Shield Advanced provides expanded DDoS attack protection for your Elastic Load Balancing load balancers, Amazon CloudFront distributions, Amazon Route 53 hosted zones and resources attached to an Elastic IP address, such as Amazon EC2 instances.

What Are AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and AWS Firewall Manager?

Development

What is AWS Config

EFS

Elastic File System

Useful Links

https://www.whatismyip.com/

AWS Account installation

 

1) Create a new outlook.com account

    • Create NEWemail account xxxct101bmn@outlook.com password Pa55w.rd1234 where xxx = your initials.

Ex: cyfct101bmn@outlook.com

2) Create an AWS trial account using the email address you created in Step 1

https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup

The AWS account name should be the same email address also.

  • Select Personal “Account Type” on the “Contact Information” screen.
  • Choose Basic Plan(Free) on the “Select a Support Plan” screen.

You must use a credit card to create the account.  This is just to verify your identity.

From AWS website:

“We use your payment information to verify your identity and only for usage in excess of the AWS Free Tier Limits. We will not charge you for usage below the AWS Free Tier Limits. To learn more about payment options, review our  Frequently Asked Questions.

3) Sign into the Console as Root user using the same email account you created in Step 1.

Labfiles

Download into C:\labfiles

lab1

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