Attend this "how-to" webinar to learn the basics of getting started with AWS. After a brief overview, this session will dive into discussions of core AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, and demonstrate how to utilize those services to launch virtual machines in the cloud, backup and restore data, and more. Learning Objectives: • Create an AWS account, and access its free services • Learn to use the AWS Management Console • Create and manage users and groups, and enable multi-factor authentication • Create and run a virtual machine in the cloud, using Amazon EC2 • Backup and restore an EC2 virtual machine • Use Amazon S3 to store and serve files • Learn how to manage costs and set up billing alerts

1. © 2016, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Dave Rocamora, Solutions Architect
November 2016
Getting Started with AWS

2. What we’ll cover today
 Creating an AWS account
 Creating an IAM user and enabling MFA
 Launching and connecting to EC2 instances
 Backing up and restoring EC2 instances
 Using S3 to store and serve files
 Visualizing AWS costs and setting billing alerts

3. The AWS Free Tier
 Includes most AWS services
 Available for all new accounts
 Good for one year from the day the account is created
 Everything we show today can be done within the free tier
 For more details: http://aws.amazon.com/free/

4. Signing up for an AWS account
 Sign up through https://aws.amazon.com
 You will need a credit card
 There will be a telephone verification

5. Demo: Signing up for AWS

6. First Steps: Creating IAM Users
 Using AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM), you can create
and manage AWS users and
groups.
 You can control what resources
each user has access to within an
AWS account.

7. First Steps: Enabling MFA
 AWS allows you to require multi-
factor authentication for your
users through physical or software-
based single use login tokens. This
protects against stolen passwords
and key loggers.
 Enable this on IAM users and the
root account

8. Demo: Creating an IAM user
and enabling MFA

9. Amazon EC2 – Creating an SSH key pair
 SSH stands for Secure Shell
 SSH keys are used for secured access to EC2 instances
 SSH keys avoid password weaknesses
 You can import your own key or have AWS generate a key pair for you.
 AWS does not store the private part of the key pair

10. Demo: Creating an SSH key
pair for Amazon EC2

11. Amazon EC2 – Creating a Security Group
 Security Groups are firewalls for your instances
 By default, they block all traffic
 You can choose what protocols and ports to open
 You can use port ranges (e.g. 22-24)
 You can choose who the ports are open to
 Create rules with CIDR notation for groups of IP addresses (/32 is a single IP)
 Create rules that specify Security Groups for other EC2 Instances

12. Demo: Creating a Security
Group in Amazon EC2

13. Amazon EC2 – Launching an Instance
 Instances are virtual machines running in the cloud
 You have full control of the instance and can install any
software that you choose
 You can choose the instance type and size to get different
amounts of memory, CPU, disk, etc.
 You will need your Key Pair and a Security Group to launch
the instance into

14. Demo: Launching and
connecting to EC2 Instances

15. Amazon EBS – Storage for EC2 Instances
 Amazon Elastic Block Store is persistent block storage for EC2 instances
 As small as 1GB and as large as 16TB
 Available in several different types
 Create snapshots of EBS volumes in S3 to create backups

16. Amazon EBS – Volume Types
General Purpose
SSD (gp2)
Provisioned IOPS
SSD (io1)
Throughput
Optimized HDD (st1)
Cold HDD (sc1)

17. Amazon EBS – Volume Types
General Purpose
SSD (gp2)
Provisioned IOPS
SSD (io1)
Cold HDD (sc1)Throughput
Optimized HDD (st1)

18. Demo: Creating EBS Volumes,
Snapshots, and AMIs

19. Amazon S3
 S3 is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service
 Store and retrieve almost any amount of data: 1 byte to 5
terabytes per object
 Highly scalable and durable
 Encryption available
 Objects exist in the AWS region you choose
 Object level permissions
 Easily accessible

20. Demo: Storing and Serving
Objects with S3

21. Billing and Cost Management
 There are several features to help you monitor costs and
visualize your AWS spend:
 Cost Explorer
 Alerts on Spending Limits
 Detailed Billing Reports
 Consolidated Billing

22. Demo: Exploring Billing and
Cost Management

23. What we covered
 Creating an AWS account
 Creating an IAM user and enabling MFA
 Launching and connecting to EC2 instances
 Backing up and restoring EC2 instances
 Using S3 to store and serve files
 Visualizing AWS costs and setting billing alerts

24. Thank you!