In this lab I will learn what CloudFormation does and how it works, I want to learn this as I am already running my own website and it has Stacks created already and I want to know how to use them. Create a Stack I will now create a stack using an AWS Template. I […]
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Introduction to Amazon CloudFront
In this lab, I will be storing a picture into a public S3 bucket that can be accessed by others. Storing a publicly accessible image file in an Amazon S3 Bucket First I need to create an S3 Bucket and make it public Now I need to upload an image to my newly created bucket. […]
Introduction to Elastic Load Balancing
In this lab, I will be creating Elastic Load Balancing. This is where traffic is spread out over multiple instances. Creating an Elastic Load Balancer This is done is the EC2 Service. I then go into the Load Balancers tab and select create new load balancer, I select classic load balancer. I encountered an issue […]
Introduction to Amazon ElastiCache
Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB
In this lab, I will create a simple table in Amazon DynamoDB to store information about a music Libary. Creating a New Table Creating a new table in done in the DynamoDB service. I then create a table based on the lab requirements Adding and Modifying Table Data In this part, I will be adding data […]
Introduction to Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (Linux)
In this lab, I am creating a relational database service in Linux, I chose Linux because I deal so much in Windows that I want to be put out of my comfort zone. The prerequisites for this lab is to have a PEM key which I already do I can continue on. Creating a Relational […]
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
In this lab, I will be creating an Elastic Block Store. An EBS is a block-level storage that is used with AWS instances which are automatically replicated within its zone to protect from data loss. Creating an Elastic Block Store Volume For this, I need to be in the EC2 service and find the tab Volumes. […]
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) with Windows Server
In this lab, I am required to make a Windows Instance and remote desktop into it. Create an Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Server There are no custom changes that need to be made when creating this instance, the only thing I need to assure is that port 3389 is open for RDP. Before anything, […]
Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Create an Amazon Linux Instance from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) In this lab, I need to create a Linux Instance This is done in the EC2 Service. The requirements for this was that port 22 was open and a Key Pair was created (I have one I prepared earlier) Connecting to the Amazon EC2 […]
Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Create a Bucket in Amazon S3 In this lab, I will create a bucket and learn how to interact with the bucket. First I must create it. Adding an Object to Amazon S3 Now I am going to upload a file to my new S3 bucket, for this demo I just upload a PNG image […]