Setting Up an AWS Account (Walkthrough)
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Time
19 hours 19 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
CEU/CPE
20
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>> Hey, everybody and welcome back to this lesson.
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In this lesson, we're going to be setting
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up our AWS account.
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The learning objectives are going to need to
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understand how to set up
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the account. We're going to walk through it.
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You'll get to see me do it
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hands-on and then you could do it yourself if you'd like.
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We're also going to be summarizing
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the various support plans out there.
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But for this course,
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just so that you're aware,
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we're going to be working with the free support plan.
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You do not need to upgrade it,
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but we will cover the options that are out there
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for you and distinguish
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a few of the differences so that you know,
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going into the exam because you
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may see one or two questions on that.
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Now, I just want to quickly
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summarize or preface this by saying
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that you do not need to have
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your own AWS account in
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order for you to take this course,
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and in order for you to pass the exam.
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It is helpful, however, especially,
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if you're a very hands-on learner,
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like I am, having the AWS account was very helpful.
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I could break and fix things on my own,
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and just being hands-on just helps
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commit the topics that we're learning to memory.
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Now, if you are not wanting to
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open up your own account, I understand.
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We have a lot of labs in this course,
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which you can leverage to do
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the very same thing as far as hands-on.
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Setting it all up,
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and breaking and fixing
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and troubleshooting, and all that good stuff,
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but the AWS account
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setting up process is something that I recommend doing.
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I think starting from the ground up
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gives a holistic idea on
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how to tackle certification
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like this because this is a good one.
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It's going to have it's challenges and
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just starting from the very beginning
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can sometimes help with that.
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Now, I do want to also give you
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a quick warning that setting up
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your own account is free. That's not the warning.
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The warning is that, when you
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start using services in AWS,
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you may incur a slight cost.
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Typically, what I see for
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students that are going out to the entire course,
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and they finished, they might end up with like
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a charge on their credit card for about $10.
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Not a huge cost,
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but just something that I
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wanted to make sure that you are
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aware of before you sign up and follow this process.
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That being said, if you do not
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want to set up your own AWS account,
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feel free to skip this lesson
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and move on to the next one.
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But if you do,
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then let's go ahead and dive right in.
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I'm in my browser here,
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and if you navigate over to aws.amazon.com,
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or you simply just type an AWS
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into Google or whatever search browser if you use,
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it should take you to this page,
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on the first page.
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This is just the homepage. This is just introduction,
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some marketing, some services, lots of good stuff.
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But we're going to go ahead and get right to
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the chase and we want to create an account.
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As you can see here, this is the sign-up page.
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I'm going to go ahead and sign up.
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Here, we're going to have to go through
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the contact information.
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So I'm going to fill out this information,
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but we're going to go ahead and jump
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ahead to the next scene.
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You don't have to see my information.
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If you're following along,
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be sure to answer in your own information.
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We'll pick up in the next phase.
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Now, that we've gone ahead and entered in
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all our personal information,
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we got to set up some billing info.
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Like I said, you're going
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to incur some costs, not a whole lot.
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You are going to be a free tier for
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the majority of the services
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that we're going to be covering,
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but you may rack up maybe
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a dollar worth of costs that you may have to pay.
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It's totally up to you if you want to continue on.
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I'm going to go ahead and fill this information out.
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Feel free to move forward if you'd like.
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Again, you don't have to for this course.
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We do have labs.
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That's part of your subscription here on Cybrary.
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You can leverage those labs if you like.
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I'm going to go ahead and fill this out
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and I will see you in the next scene.
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The next phase here is us confirming our identities.
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You're going to want to enter in
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your phone number and AWS is either
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going to send you
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a text message or a voice call with a short digit,
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like six-digit number or something like that.
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You're going to enter that into
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this next phase of the confirmation,
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and that should confirm your identity.
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Then we're going to go ahead
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and move on to the next phase.
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As promised, we're going to go ahead
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and select our support plan.
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For this course,
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we're just going to leave it as basic support,
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which is you're going to get
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recommended a new user support.
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You're going to get 24-by-7 self-service access
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to AWS resources.
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Let's see here four counts and billing issues only.
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You can't access them and I have done this before.
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You can access the support team at AWS.
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If you're having some issues with your billing,
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they'll help you out there and then access
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your personal health dashboard and trusted advisors.
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You do have access to those things as well.
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If you want to up
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your ante here if you want to up your support plan,
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you have the ability to go ahead
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and select developer support
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or business support if you like.
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If you want that enterprise,
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you're going to have to contact them,
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and you can talk shop
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and figure out the details
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there on what that's going to cost.
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But typically, these are the ones
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that we're going to be selecting.
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For this course, like I said, let's leave it as free.
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No need to accrue any extra costs.
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We'll go ahead and complete the sign-up.
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We have setup our AWS account.
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Now, we should be able to go ahead
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and go to the AWS management console.
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We're going to go ahead and log in to that.
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I'm going to have to set up a Roots user account.
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I'm going to go ahead and use the same email
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that I use for the AWS account, which is fine.
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I'm sorry, this is not set it up.
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This is actually to sign in.
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We're going to go ahead and sign in.
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Let's go ahead and do that.
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There we go. We are in the AWS management console.
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Now, I just want to do
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a quick tour of the Management Console.
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Notice here, first thing we want to
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notice is that we're in the Ohio region.
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I'm going to actually move this over to
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US East one because this is
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the very first region
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that AWS stood up their services in.
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The majority of the AWS services,
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all these services that you see here,
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these are things that you can build
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with or leverage in some way or another.
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We'll talk a lot more about this later on in the course,
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but all of these services are guaranteed to work,
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or I shouldn't say guaranteed,
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but they are more likely to work because
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they were designed in this Northern Virginia region.
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I say that to say there
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aren't going to be other regions that do
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not allow certain services just
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for security and privacy reasons.
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Like for example, the
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Asia-Pacific region, some European regions,
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they do have restrictions on data privacy
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and their policies are a lot more
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tighter than here in the United States.
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Because of that, you may not see certain services there.
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Another reason you may not see certain services there are
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because of the simple developments
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that needs to take place.
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It's not so simple, but just the simple fact
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that AWS hasn't stood up
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the correct resources in place in
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these other regions to support all of the services.
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You may not see it available in that region
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just yet until they get that all fixed up.
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That being said, I do want to take note here.
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This is our US East region.
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You do have multiple areas you can deploy to.
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Then you do have others here too.
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Just feel free to take a look at that.
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Let's hop over to the services menu.
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Here are all our services and we have computes,
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we have containers, which is also part of compute.
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We have storage, databases,
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migration, and transfer.
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Notice here all things that make it really easy for us.
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Networking and CDN.
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The developer tools,
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lots of good stuff there.
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Media Services.
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We got Kinesis, Media Tailor.
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We have Management and Governance,
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which we're going to be talking about a lot more here.
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Satellite, Quantum Technologies, Robotics.
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As you can see,
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they have a lot of really good stuff.
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Tons of machine learning.
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You're going to have a lot of services available to you.
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Under the hood, it's still the same server,
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but there's a lot of applications that were built by AWS
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that allow you to leverage
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the server and the server resources in different ways.
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At the end of the day,
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you're still dealing with a CPU,
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some RAM, storage,
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and a network,
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but they slice and dice it
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up and layer it in different ways that
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you could do things like
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Amazon Polly or Amazon Rekognition,
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which we'll be talking a lot about more,
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a lot about these services as you
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move along in your studies in AWS.
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Lots of really cool things,
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even AR and VR, look at that.
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You can actually make VR and augmented
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reality games and scenes wherever you want.
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Really cool stuff. That's it.
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We have now walked through
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the entire AWS accounts setup process.
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I hope you've found some helpful tips there in that bit.
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In the process of this lesson,
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we've also covered not only how to set up
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your own account and how
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to explore the console
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and the AWS dashboard, how to log in,
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and difference between Root users and normal users,
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but we've also covered breaking down the support plans,
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which is important because you may see
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one or two questions on
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the exam talking about that very thing.
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Feel free to review this if you need to.
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Also, if you want to walk through this yourself,
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I encourage you to do it.
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But that being said,
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let's go ahead and move on to the next lesson.
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