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AWS (Amazon Web Services) is one of the (at least in my mind) "Big Three" cloud providers. The other two are Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

AWS is the oldest, largest, and most popular of the three, generally speaking.

Security best practice: Only use your AWS account's root user to perform a few account and service management tasks. Do NOT use the root user for everyday tasks. After you create your account, secure the root user with a strong password and enable multi-factor authentication (2FA) on it.

For all day-to-day administrative work, create a new IAM user with admin permissions. This will help keep your account secure.

Assignment

Let's get you up and running with AWS.

Create an AWS account (if you don't already have one)
1. Go to AWS
2. Create an Account
3. Select "personal" account
4. Fill out the form
5. Add billing info: You won't be charged if you stay within the free tier, which is all you'll need for this course - a $1 hold will be placed on your card to verify it's real, but it will be refunded in a few days
6. Verify phone number
7. Use the free support plan
Create an IAM user
1. Create an iam user in the AWS console
2. Name it after you
3. No need for console access
4. Make a new managers user group with full admin access and attach the user to it
5. Create the user
Install the AWS CLI version 2
Authorize the IAM user through the CLI
1. Select the user and click "create access key"
2. Select "CLI" and ignore the recommendations
3. Leave tag value blank
4. Run aws configure
5. Enter the access key and secret key
6. Leave region/format blank
7. No need to download the keys.
Verify CLI sign in with aws sts get-caller-identity
cat ~/.aws/credentials to see the keys

Run and submit the CLI tests.

We won't go outside the free tier for this course, but they do sometimes update their free tier. If you're nervous, you can read more about AWS's free tier. Delete all the resources we create in this course when you're done and you should be just fine.