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AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) Introduction

“AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a web service that helps you securely control access to AWS resources. You use IAM to control who is authenticated (signed in) and authorized (has permissions) to use resources.” Umm.. okay? So what this means essentially is that with IAM you can give

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S3 Introduction

“Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as websites, mobile

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Elasticache Introduction

“Amazon ElastiCache allows you to seamlessly set up, run, and scale popular open-Source compatible in-memory data stores in the cloud. Build data-intensive apps or boost the performance of your existing databases by retrieving data from high throughput and low latency in-memory data stores.” Umm.. okay? Before we actually understand Elasticache,

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AWS RDS Snapshots And Read Replicas Explained

AWS RDS is a database service that is used to manage relational databases. When managing a database, there is an obvious requirement to backup the data generated in a timely fashion. RDS provides the feature to backup your databases automatically and manually. “By default, Amazon RDS creates and saves automated

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RDS Connect EC2 To RDS MySQL

Hey there! In this guide we will set up a MySQL database on AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) and connect it to a new EC2 instance. If you already have an EC2 instance set up or both EC2 and RDS set up, but are unable to link the two, you

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RDS Create A Database

Welcome to this article. In this article we’ll go ahead and create a new database with Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). This database is going to be a MySQL database, but you can follow along to create really any of the options available in RDS. Let’s go! 🚀 To

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RDS Introduction

“Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so

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AWS CLI Configure on EC2

The AWS CLI is a very useful tool to access other AWS services from your EC2 servers or even your laptop/computer. In this article we’re going to take a look at AWS CLI and set it up. Before you start using the CLI, you need to create a

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Route 53 Introduction

“Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service. It is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way to route end users to Internet applications by translating names like www.example.com into the numeric IP addresses

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Elastic Load Balancer Setup (Application Load Balancer)

Hello and welcome! In this guide we are going to set up a load balancer with AWS EC2. This service falls in the free tier so you can use it to your heart’s content. Well not really. You have 750 hours monthly and can use Classic and Application

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Elastic Load Balancers

“Elastic Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, IP addresses, and Lambda functions. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Elastic Load Balancing offers three types of load

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EBS Introduction

“Amazon EBS provides a range of volume types that allow you to optimize storage performance and cost for your workload. These volume types are divided into two major categories: SSD-backed storage for transactional workloads, such as databases and boot volumes, and HDD-backed storage for throughput intensive workloads, such as MapReduce

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IAM Create Roles

Welcome to another article on IAM. In the previous article we created users and groups with IAM, added users to groups and even attached permissions directly to the users. In this article we’ll go through creating roles. To work with roles, you need to head over to Services >

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IAM Create Users and Assign Groups

In the previous article we had set up an MFA for our root account. In this article we will go ahead and create a new user, and also give them limited access to AWS resources by creating a group and attaching a policy. Make sure you’re on the IAM

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IAM Multi Factor Authentication

First, Open AWS Console. You need to login and then you’ll see something like this. Hover on Services to see the list of services provided by AWS. Yep, there are way too many of them. But the good thing is, you’ll most likely never deal with most of

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EC2 Create an HTTP server [Amazon AMI]

Hey there! If you want to create an HTTP server on your EC2 Instance, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’m going to assume you have created an Amazon AMI EC2 instance and connected to it. If you haven’t created and connected to

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EC2 Create a server

Welcome to the AWS practice lab for creating a new server! In this article we will go ahead and create an EC2 server so that we can run our web application on it. Alright, let’s get started! Click on EC2 under services. As we can see we don’t

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EC2 Introduction

“Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you