In this demonstration video,
we will set up an AWS account.
This is an optional lecture,
so
feel free to skip it if you already have
an AWS account.
Also,
please note that all the AWS base labs
and the scores can be accessed directly from
the browser without setting up an AWS account.
To start off, let's go to aws.amazon.com
from the web browser,
and once the page has been loaded,
click on the button on the top right
that says create an AWS account.
Once you do that,
you'll be asked to fill in
an email address and password.
Make sure that you use
a valid email address.
This email ID will be used
as the root account
that will make use of
to log into the management console for the first time.
Next, let's select an appropriate password,
and let's also confirm the same password.
We can also add an AWS account name.
In this case, I'm going to make use of the same name
called terraform -demo,
and once this is done, click on continue.
In this next page, we will have to
add in the contact information.
This account is intended for
personal usage and we'll be making use
of the free tier
so click on the personal account type.
Make sure that all the mandatory fields have been
filled and we can then click on continue.
Once we have entered all the mandatory information,
click on the AWS customer agreement
and click on create account and continue.
Next, we have to enter the payment information.
This is a mandatory step
even though we'll be making use of the free tier.
Once you've entered all the payment information,
click on verify and add.
We'll now be asked to verify our phone number.
In this example, let's select SMS
and enter the phone number
and answer the security check.
You can also optionally use a voice call
to get the security code.
Once you get the security code,
enter it in this screen here and click on verify code.
Next click on continue.
In this final step,
you will be asked to select a support plan.
Since we are interested in only making use of
the free tier
and do not need any extended support from AWS,
let's click on the basic plan.
That's it, our account is now set up.
Next, click on the go to the AWS
Management Console button,
and here click on root user
and enter the same email address
that we use to create this account
and enter the same password.
We are now inside the AWS Management Console.
To see all the services offered by AWS,
click on the Services tab on the top left.
As you can see,
there are plenty of services listed here
which are grouped under several categories.
Under compute, we can see services like EC2,
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk.
Under storage, we can see services
like S3, EFS, storage gateway.
Under databases,
we have DB such as the RDS
and dynamoDB.
If you scroll a little bit down,
you can see that we have a group called
security identity and compliance.
Here we have IAM, that stands
for identity and access management.
We'll get introduced to some of these services
later in the course,
but first, we'll start off with the introduction
to IAM, which is the next lecture.