Welcome back.
This is Section 3 in this section. You will create a
lab environment that you will use throughout the rest of this course you
start off by creating an AWS account that you can use from
there. You will learn about some Cloud resources like
ec2 and VPC. Finally you put
it all together and create your lab with an infrastructure's code
tool called terraform.
In this first video of Section 3, you will create your AWS
account. If you already have an account you'd like to
use feel free to skip this video and go to the next.
Before we create your account. There are some
prerequisites for AWS that you must have. The first is an
email address AWS will send in a verification code
to an email you provide. The second is a
phone number AWS will send a code to verify your identity.
The third prereq is a valid credit
card or debit card AWS needs a valid form
of payment to create your account. Don't worry though. You should
not be billed for any of this as a falls under the free tier model,
but more on this later.
The final piece of information you need is an address. This is just
to verify the credit card process.
With all this out of the way, let's get started.
Okay.
So here we are at our browser and you need
to go to aws.amazon.com and up
at the top right corner over here. You will see a create
a AWS account link. You should go ahead and click that
and that should take us to the creation form.
Here you can see we have a sign up form one. It's
asking for our user email address. And the second is
an account name. The root user email address is the main
email address we're going to use and this will be tied to your billing and everything
else. So make sure it's an email that you have access to account name
is just something clever or anything that help you
identify this and I'm gonna go ahead and paste
mine in now.
Okay, so I'm just using a email
address that I've set up and I'm using
the Linux for cloud and devops course name. Nothing special here.
I'm gonna go ahead and click verify email address.
So the next thing is going to happen is they're gonna send a verification
code to the email address you provide and then once that
comes in your mail, you'll get the verification code. I'll pause
the video here while I'm waiting for their verification code and I'll
see you on the other side.
Okay, I'm back. So I got the verification code
and I'm going to go ahead and click verify.
Here are my address has been successfully vetted. So Nexus
asking us for is a root password. And this
is so we can log into our account. I'll go ahead and just use whatever I
want. But make sure you use something that's complex.
Okay. So after we've entered our password we
come up to the contact information just go
ahead and click personal since this is a demo and this is for a course
obviously you put in your full name.
Put in your full name, you're gonna go
ahead and put in your phone number with your
country region and your full address. And of
course you post a code if it applies.
And this is just for billing and other purposes, of
course and click that you have read the customer
agreement. I'll assume you've read it and you understand what
you're signing up for so we click next.
And this is our billing information. So whether
you need here is this an act credit card,
they're not going to charge you anything because you're still in the free tier model,
but you still need a credit card to sign up. They may
charge a dollar depending on where you're at geographically to see this. But
so I'll pause the video here enter my information and I'll be right back.
Okay, so I entered the code in
I hit next and it brought us to the congratulations.
Your account is created.
Right. Now while you could log in in your account,
you're still waiting Amazon behind the scene is still processing your
account. So you wouldn't have access to everything. So what I'll
do is I'm gonna pause the video here.
We'll wait until the email
comes you will get another email saying that your account is ready
to go. And once that is I'll bring us back and we'll log
in and we'll we'll take the web console.
Okay, so I clicked on
the button it brings you to the sign in page, which is basically sign
in dot AWS dot amazon.com and
be since we've only created a root
user so far. We're going to use the same email address. We
signed up for our user.
Gonna go ahead and click that enter your password.
and sign in
And here we are so this is the front page
or the welcome page if you will for the AWS console
and as you can see at the top up here,
we have a search bar that you can
use which I'll show you in a second about what I highly recommend.
You can see that we have recently visited card here
that basically gives you the stuff you've gone to the resources. Like
here. We have ec2 and VPC since those are the
most common ones you go to on new accounts.
Down here below as well. You have cost and usage
when we had billing and then you have health of open issues.
This obviously more and more stuff that we can go through here. But for this
video we're gonna stick with this. I did
want to show you one thing even though I could click on the recently
visited or VPC. We we're gonna
go ahead and type so you can see how to search because I feel this
is faster and see as we bring it
up it we search for ec2 it finds us and now I
can start this and it'll show up here on
my bar.
And you can see that in left and I'll get out of the search here
for a second. And as you can see up here in the bar now,
my favorites will be up there. And so I don't have to keep searching but
let me go to ec2 to show you really quick here. We
are an ec2.
The end goal of this section is going to be to give
an instance running here that we can access and learn some
Administration and other tasks on but as you
can see right now, we're not there so
I'll go ahead and stop here your account set
up. We've toured AWS console a little bit and then I'll
I'll see you later. Thank you.
Okay, let's go over recap of what we just did.
In this video you created an AWS account.
This account will be used for the rest of this course going forward.
So it's important that all the steps were completed.
The lab falls under the free tier plan and
should not cost you any money to use. I was
very careful on choosing specific resources for this course, so you
can learn without having to Shell out any cash.
Finally, you took a look and a quick tour of
ads's web console and learn how to search for resources and
also favorite some we will visit the
web console and later videos.
In the next video, you'll learn about a virtual Network
in the cloud called VPC. See you
soon.