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>> Welcome back. In this lesson we're going to be talking
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about EC2 instance connect.
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This is going to be a short one,
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but I think you're going to find this pretty handy
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so strap in, let's go and do this.
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The learning objectives are going to
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be to demonstrate what
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EC2 instance connect is and how it works,
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so I'm going to actually hop over to my screen.
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You guys can watch me do this
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as another walk-through video.
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Let's go ahead and do that. Here we are.
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We're in the AWS management console here.
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I'm going to go and navigate to EC2 again.
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I left my machine running on purpose.
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I want to quickly note this rule quick.
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When you have a free tier count,
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you're going to have so many compute hours you can run
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an EC2 instance before it begins to
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charge the credit card on file,
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make sure you terminate
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your instances because it will ding your credit card.
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I have gotten charges for like $2, $5,
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$10 because I forgot,
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so make sure you're doing that.
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If you have multiple AWS accounts like me,
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sometimes it gets tricky to remember which account
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you left that EC2 running
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in so that becomes a pain in the butt.
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Don't do that. Don't be like me.
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Terminate your instances when you're done.
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This is your work account is
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probably a little bit different.
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You got to make sure you follow your local policies,
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your company policies on that.
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You don't know them, go ahead and
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check with the managers on that,
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check with IT engineering.
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Hopefully, you're not going to have access
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to that, at least not right away.
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Usually you have some seniors or tech leads
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to manage that and they're on top of it.
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As a security engineer that works in the Cloud,
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you definitely shouldn't have access to that.
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That's just danger. But anyways,
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let's go ahead and get into this.
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Here's my T2 micro that I set up
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earlier and I'm going to go ahead and open it up here.
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Here's lots of juicy information here and if I
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click this button here, connect.
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This is that EC2 instance connect
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that I was referring to.
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This is what this lesson is really about here.
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This provides us with an opportunity to jump in to
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the EC2 instance without
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having to go through a lot of technical setup.
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If you don't have your CLI setup,
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you don't have your PowerShell setup for this.
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You haven't installed
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all the dependencies and everything.
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This is one way you can access it,
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and you can manage your EC2 instance real quick.
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I'm going to go ahead and hit "Connect" here.
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This thing is pretty cool.
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It's a Cloud based terminal and so here we are.
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We're in the machine. I can do things.
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I can do like, let's see, who am I?
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EC2 user. There we go.
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If I want to do print working directory, there we go.
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If I want to do ls, ls-a.
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You can see here I can do stuff in
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this Linux instance that I have here on the Cloud.
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I'm running this in my browser.
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I didn't have to download any packages.
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I didn't have to download any software at all.
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It just runs right there.
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It's a pretty cool stuff.
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Super-duper simple.
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I just wanted to show you what this is because,
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I'm probably going to get a question
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on this in the exam,
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and you want to make sure you're familiar
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with the beauty of this tool.
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Let's go ahead and dive back into our slides here,
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and we'll wrap this lesson up.
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To summarize real quick,
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we learned what's the EC2 instance connect software is,
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and we discovered how to use it super easy.
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It's already been four minutes in this video,
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and we're already done, so you
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should to take a look around, check it out.
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If you have your own AWS account
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and you set up an EC2 instance,
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go ahead and play with it,
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make sure you terminate your instance.
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I'm going to go and do that here when I'm done,
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teaching this module because
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I want to make sure I don't get charged.
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But be sure that
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you're playing around with these tools because
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it's cool stuff and it's going
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to help you commit the information to memory.
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So when you sit down for your exam,
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you know what you're talking about.
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I'll see you in the next lesson.
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