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How Do I Use Amazon Web Services?

The first thing you must do is to create an AWS account. Fill in details like your email address, create a password, confirm the password and create an account user name. This will give you access to ten 10-minute tutorials to get a firsthand information about the AWS products.

1st Tutorial- Talks about how to launch a virtual machine using AWS Amazon Cloud Services (EC2) on Linux operating system.

2nd Tutorial - There is a step-by-step guide on how to set up a WordPress website on an AWS EC2 virtual machine. Learn how to configure and launch your EC2 VM, get a WordPress account/ username and password.

3rd Tutorial- Teaches on how to register a domain name for your website with Amazon Route 53. There is an annual non-refundable fee to register the domain.

4th Tutorial- Guides you on how to store your applications in the cloud with the Amazon Simple Storage Services(S3). Learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, store files(objects), retrieve them and delete them when not required.

5th Tutorial- Tells you on how you use the AWS command line interface (CLI) to access S3. Learn how to construct your own scripts to back up your files to the cloud and retrieve them whenever you need.

6th Tutorial- Tells you on how to launch an application with AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB). EB is compatible with all scripts like PHP, .Net, Java, NodeJS, Python, Docker, Ruby, Go etc. However, the tutorial focuses only on PHP.

7th Tutorial- Tells you about how to deploy and use the Docker Containers on the Amazon Elastic Container Service(ECS).

8th Tutorial- Learn how to launch, configure and connect to a Windows virtual server with EC2.

9th tutorial- teaches you on how to create and connect to a MySQL database with Amazon Relational Database Service(RDS).

10th tutorial is about how to use the CLI to upload files to Amazon S3.