AWS Tutorial

Welcome to Simson's Amazon Web Services tutorial. Below are the key topics that you need to know about Amazon Web Services, and a curated set of articles and videos that will teach you the concepts.

General AWS Information

• Before you do anything else, understand the AWS billing model:
  • On-Demand, Spot and Reserved Pricing.
  • Storage Pricing
• Understand users and authentication: AWS root users, IAM users, ACCESS_KEY

• Your First Hour With AWS, Dec. 21, 2017. 28 min
• Switch From Tape to Cloud Backups – AWS Storage Gateway - AWS Tech Tips, Feb 20, 2018
• Building A Modern Data Architecture on AWS (Level 200), Dec. 21, 2017. 23 min
• AWS re:Invent 2017 Keynote, Nov. 29, 2017. 1 hour, 48 min
• Georgetown University ANLY 502 Massive Data Fundamentals, Spring 2017 (slides on Google Drive ) (slides2)

Specific AWS Services

You may wish to review:

• Lecture 1: Massive Data and AWS, Jan. 11, 2017

You should understand the following AWS services:

EC2 — Elastic Compute Cloud

Usernames:

Fedora: fedora@ipaddress AWS Linux: ec2-user@ipaddress Spark: hadoop@ipaddress Ubuntu: ubuntu@ipaddress

EBS — Elastic Block Service

• AWS re:Invent 2017: Deep Dive on Amazon EBS (CMP310)

Challenge question:

• EBS is part of EC2. Why?

EMR — Elastic Map Reduce

Challenge questions:

• What makes Elastic Map Reduce **Elastic**?
• What's the difference between a Master, Core, and Task node?
• Some EMR nodes only support EBS, some support both EBS and SSD. Why?

EFS — Elastic File System

• https://aws.amazon.com/efs/
• https://aws.amazon.com/efs/pricing/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/category/amazon-elastic-file-system/

Lambda and Serverless Technologies

• AWS Builders' Day | Serverless Development Deep Dive, Feb 14, 2018, 1 hour
• Live Coding with AWS | Building AWS Lambda Powered Twitter Bots, Feb. 14, 2018
• Live Coding with AWS | Reading Web Pages with Amazon Polly & Chrome Extensions, Feb 14, 2018
• AWS Builders' Day | Deep Dive on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Feb 14, 2018. 1 hour
• AWS Builders' Day | Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), Feb 14, 2018. 1 hour (Follow up of previous)

Artificial Intelligence

• Chat Bots with Amazon Lex (Level 300), Dec. 21, 2017. 26 min

Databases

• AWS Quick Start for SQL Server 2017 on Amazon EC2 Feb 15, 2018
• Migrating Databases to Amazon Aurora (Level 200), Dec. 21, 2017. 25 min

pip install

Don't forget: use pip install awscli and not pip install aws, otherwise you will get this:

 % aws
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/simsong/opt/anaconda3/bin/aws", line 5, in <module>
    from aws.main import main
  File "/Users/simsong/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aws/main.py", line 23
    print '%(name)s: %(endpoint)s' % {
          ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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