‫So welcome to the AWS Console Home.
‫And in this page, you can do a lot of things.
‫So first of all, let's have a look
‫at the top right corner of your screen,
‫right now, this is what's called the regions selector,
‫and right now I am in Northern Virginia,
‫US east one.
‫But it is advised for this course to
‫choose a region that is geographically close to you.
‫So because I'm in Europe, I'm actually close to Ireland.
‫So I can choose EU west one.
‫But if you are in other regions of the world, for example
‫if you're in Africa and you're close to Capetown
‫then choose this.
‫Of course you don't have to physically be
‫in that region to use that region, okay?
‫You can for example
‫choose whatever region makes sense for you.
‫So choose whatever is closest
‫and this will give you the lowest amount of latency.
‫Next in the console console, you will see a list
‫of recently visited services
‫and it should be empty for you.
‫And I just tried that one
‫so it's showing one right here for me.
‫On the bottom you get some information about AWS.
‫You get the health issues, if need be
‫and cost and usage info for your accounts
‫as well as tutorials to build a solution and so on.
‫So this webpage is actually changing a lot over timeless
‫changed a lot for the past two years.
‫And so it may not look exactly the same as you
‫and in case it looks very, very, very different.
‫I will rerecord this lecture.
‫Okay, so once we have this
‫we need to look at services of AWS.
‫And for this two options,
‫the first one is to go on the top left click on services
‫and you can either look at services
‫by alphabetical order, as you can see
‫there are a lot of services on AWS,
‫or by category for example, for compute
‫you will have all these services and so on.
‫But don't worry over time,
‫we will learn these services
‫and we don't have to navigate that page.
‫Another thing I really like is the search bar.
‫So you can actually type a service for example, route 53
‫and then it gives you search results.
‫So it gives you four services that match this query, okay?
‫And then within these services,
‫we can also have a look at features
‫and 13 features match them.
‫So we can directly jump into the domain names
‫of the route 53 service and it's a good thing.
‫We can also look at blogs, knowledge articles
‫documentations and so on.
‫So this is quite cool.
‫Let's go into route 53 now to have a look at this console.
‫So this one is very special because
‫on the top right hand side, it says global.
‫That means that this console
‫does not require a region selection.
‫And that is more of the exception than the rule,
‫but some services in AWS are where
‫it's called global services and no matter where you are
‫you're going to get the same view.
‫But if you switch services and you go, for example
‫to the EC two service,
‫this time on the top right hand side,
‫as you can see it says Ireland
‫because I chose the Ireland region.
‫And so based if I run this console in Ireland
‫or say in another region, for example, in Canada,
‫well my view is going to be different
‫in terms of the resources that I will see.
‫So that's why it's important for you to remain
‫within the same region for the entire duration
‫of this tutorial and this course.
‫The other thing you can look at
‫is called the AWS global infrastructure
‫that you can find on Google.
‫And this gives you a lot
‫of information around your services.
‫And one thing that is very important to look at
‫is the AWS regional services.
‫And it gives you the services list by region.
‫And so this is table,
‫and so for example, if in the course,
‫I talk about a service and do a hands on,
‫but it doesn't seem to be in your region,
‫you can check here and find the availability of services.
‫So for example, we can check a look,
‫have a look for Cape town
‫and see the services that are available in this region.
‫And if you don't see a service
‫maybe you need to switch a region
‫in of course the console,
‫to have access to it
‫because not all the services from AWS are in every region.
‫So that's it for this lecture,
‫I hope you liked it
‫and I will see you in the next lecture.