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AWS EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud

AWS EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides resizable computing capacity, from anywhere on the web all around the globe. Let’s talk about how to create an EC2 instance (or simple words, a server in AWS Cloud): Step 1: T o navigate to EC2. In Find Services look for EC2, as shown in the below screenshot. Step 2: Let's create an EC2 instance. You will see the below window with EC2 Dashboard. Step 3: Click the "Launch Instance" button. If you click on the "down arrow" next to the button you will see two options, i) Launch Instance and ii) Launch Instance from template Step 4: Let's select Launch Instance and we will see a window with 7 steps to Launching an EC2 instance. Step number 1 is "Choose AMI", AMI is Amazon Machine Image. We have multiple options for AMI's - My AMI, AWS Marketplace and community AMI. Additionally, you can apply the "Free tier only...

AWS S3 - Simple Storage Service by Amazon

AWS S3 - Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web all around the globe. Let’s talk about how to create a bucket in S3 (or simple words, a folder in S3): Step 1: T o navigate to S3. In Find Services look for S3, as shown in the below screenshot. Step 2: Click on Create bucket. You will get to stage one which is Name and region. Pick a name and it should be unique across all of the S3 platform. Click next. Step 3: On the next screen, we get configuration options where we can select different properties such as Versioning, Tags, etc. We will leave the rest of it as default and click next. Step 4: The Third screen is "Set Permissions". By default, all public access is restricted. We will leave it at that and move on to review. Step 5: The Last window before we create the bucket is "Review", here is where we can check if everythin...