2. learning aws

written by relyq

published on: 2023-04-27

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april 27th

19:57

it is time
this feels like a big undertaking but i already know some of the underlying concepts as im already hosting my own on-prem server so i think the knowledge will transfer and hopefully it will be a smooth ride
from what i’ve seen there are a lot of services and a fuckton of things to learn and experiment with so first thing i’ll do will be deciding what to start with

plan

1. list some resources & important things:

• aws free tier
• aws training
• aws workshops
• aws cloud practitioner cert & training
• aws sysops admin cert
• aws solutions architect cert
• open guides aws repo
• reddit post about security

2. create an account: and make sure it’s setup securely
3. get something working: i’ll probably start with a simple website and go from there
4. uhhh: explore services??

what’s next

i’ll decide what’s next once i get something working
i’ll probably try to host a webapp with an api & db

21:48

now that i’ve set up my aws account i think i should work on some of these things:

• host a static website
• deploy a webapp
• deploy a container
• run serverless code

i should also explore the free tier once i understand how things work

progress

21:40

checkpoint - aws cli is working with sso

what i’ve done so far:

1. created my aws account
2. created an organization
3. added mfa to the root acc
4. created an iam acc
5. added a user, assigned it to the iam acc, and added the PowerUserAccess perm set (and added mfa to this sso too)
6. logged in with the AWS CLI using sso

• added a zero-spend budget with alerts

april 28th

03:23

• uploaded a copy of this website to an S3 bucket

i think i’m beginning to understand how everything works together. in the next blog post i’ll try to host my issue tracker webapp on EC2 + RDS + lambda