TABLE OF CONTENTS

AWS Cloud Setup Guide

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
 How to create a free AWS Cloud Account
 How to create an Ubuntu VM machine
 Open Port from VPC Networks
 Run commands on the Ubuntu VM

Summary
Topics covered
 Road ahead

AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)

What is AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by
Amazon. AWS can be defined as a huge set of on-demand services provided to the customers on cloud
with pay-as-you-go pricing model. The technology allows subscribers to have, at their disposal, a virtual
cluster of computers, available all the time, through the Internet. Whether it is about configuring a server
or running an application, AWS lets you execute your operations on cloud in a similar manner as you
would do on a physical computer.
AWS is the pioneer of the cloud computing technology. Way back in 2006, it first offered its cloud
solutions and today is way ahead of its competitors. AWS competes primarily with Microsoft Azure,
Google and IBM in the public IaaS market. Amazon's internal IT resource management built AWS,
which expanded and grew into an innovative and cost-effective cloud solution provider.
Back in 2006, cloud might still have been a relatively new phenomenon, but today it is critical to the
survival of any business enterprise. Cloud is offering some incredible advantages that on-premise
technology just cannot compete with. With this cloud, we need not plan for servers and other IT
infrastructure which consumes lot of time in advance. Instead, these services can instantly spin up
hundreds or thousands of servers in minutes and deliver results faster. We pay only for what we use with
no up-front investment and no long-term commitments, which makes AWS cost efficient.
Today, AWS powers multitude of businesses in 190 countries around the world. AWS offers flexible,
reliable, scalable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solutions and allows enterprises to focus on their core
competencies while Amazon takes care of the IT and cloud related issues. Let us understand the impact
through an example - Netflix is a popular video streaming service which the whole world uses today.
Back in 2008, Netflix suffered a major database corruption, and for three days their operations were
halted. The problem was scaling, that is when they realized the need for a highly reliable, horizontally
scalable, distributed system in the cloud. They started using AWS, and since then their growth has been
off the charts.

AWS provides a mix of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged
software as a service (SaaS) offerings. More than 100 services comprise the Amazon Web Services
portfolio, including those for compute, databases, infrastructure management, application development
and security.

What are the top AWS products?

Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 are the two core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services,
EC2 : An EC2 instance is nothing but a virtual server in Amazon Web services terminology. It stands
for Elastic Compute Cloud. It is a web service where an AWS subscriber can request and provision a
compute server in AWS cloud. EC2 provides you configuration capacity in a seamless manner. With
EC2 you have complete control of your computing environment along with high availability, scalability,
and cost-effectiveness.
An on-demand EC2 instance is an offering from AWS where the subscriber/user can rent the virtual
server per hour and use it to deploy his/her own applications. The instance will be charged per hour with
different rates based on the type of the instance chosen. AWS provides multiple instance types for the
respective business needs of the user. Thus, you can rent an instance based on your own CPU and
memory requirements and use it as long as you want. You can terminate the instance when it’s no more
used and save on costs. This is the most striking advantage of an on-demand instance.

S3 : This is the Amazon Simple Storage. AWS S3 lets you seamlessly store and retrieve huge amounts
of data anytime, anywhere through the web interface. It allows software developers to have access to the
data quickly in an inexpensive, reliable and highly scalable manner. You can store all sorts of folders,
 files, and documents on the AWS S3.

RDS : This is the Amazon Relational Database Service. The Amazon RDS is a highly scalable
relational database service. It offers a simple, cost-efficient database in the cloud that also automatically
does database setup, hardware provisioning, backup and patching. Its advantages include high
availability, fast performance, security and compatibility.

DynamoDB : This is the Amazon NoSQL database in the cloud that provides extremely high latency at
any scale. It offers highly reliable service that is fully managed, has built-in security, in-memory
caching, backup and restoration.

VPC : This is the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud which can be thought of as a cloud data center for
deploying all your resources. VPC lets you isolate all your resources on the Amazon cloud and thus
offer very high security. It gives you complete freedom to work within your virtual networking
environment, along with selection of IP addresses, creating subnets, configuring route tables and
network gateways. AWS VPC offers logically isolated provisioning on the cloud wherein you can
launch your AWS resources.

Why should you learn AWS?

Some of the top reasons why you should learn AWS are as follows:
● AWS is an amazing standard of cloud computing and is slowly becoming synonymous with the cloud
itself.
● The salaries of AWS professionals are among the best in the IT industry.
● Getting AWS certified is not a big deal; all you need is the right training in AWS.
● There is a huge shortage of certified AWS professionals - thanks to the rapid deployment of AWS.
● There are no prerequisites to learn AWS as anybody can master this top technology.
● AWS is a very vast domain, and anybody can find their niche and excel in their careers.

How to create a free AWS cloud account?

Step 1: Navigate to https://aws.amazon.com/. The first screen you will view:

Step 2: Go to MyAccount dropdown and click on AWS Management Console.

Step 3: You landup on this screen to sign in. Click on Create a new AWS account.
Step 4: Enter the details below and click Continue.

Step 5: Select the Account type as Personal and enter the details. Select your Country from the
dropdown.

Step 6: Enter the details and click the check here checkbox and Create Account and Continue.
 Step 7: Complete the Payment Information. Though, it is a free trial account, you need to enter a card
details for identification/verification purpose.

Step 8: Fill the required information and click Secure Submit.

Step 9: Once the payment process is completed, you will view this screen. Fill in the appropriate details
and click Contact me.

Step 10: Enter the verification code as received on the given mobile number and click Verify code.

Step 11: You will view the below screen.

Step 12: Choose the Basic Plan by clicking Free button on the screen as below.

Step 13: You have successfully created your AWS free account. You should see this welcome screen.
How to create a new Ubuntu Virtual Machine

Now, let's create a new VM instance on AWS.

Step 1: Once you login to the console clicking the Sign in to the console button on the welcome screen
above using your credentials, you view the AWS console.

Step 2: Click on Services & Then on EC2 Service.

Step 3: Once you click EC2 Service, you will view the below screen, now on the left side menu Scroll
down to see Network & Security Section then Click on Security Groups

Step 4: once we click on Security group we will see below screen, Now click on Create Security
Group (you may see only default Security Group as you are doing it for first time )
 Step 5: after clicking on Create Security Group you will see below Screen. You can create the
Security Group as below

Basic Deatails:
you can enter any name (ex: demo)
you can enter any descript (ex: demo)
VPC: leave it as it is don’t change anything

Inbound Rules: configure as you see in screen shot.

Add rule  All traffic (source  change to anywhere )

Add rule  SSH (source  change to anywhere )

Outbout Rules: keep the default

After updating all, Create Security Group at the bottom right corner.

Ensure the Security Group Create Successfully & rules updated Accordingly.
Step6: Now Lets Satart Creating the Ubuntu Instance

From above Screen, left side Menu Scroll Up and click on EC2 DashBoard New, you will see below
Screen, then click on Launch Instance button as seen in below screen shot.

Step 7: after Clicking on Launch Instance you will see below screen, choose Ubuntu 18.04 LTS &
Click on Select button on Right side
Step 8: Choose an Instance type. Le t the default selection remain and click Configure Instance Details.

Step 9: you will see below screen & leave the default values as they are & click on Next: Add
Storage.
Step 10: you will see below screen & leave the default values as they are & click on Next: Add Tags.

Step 11: you will see below screen & leave the default values as they are & click on Next: Configure
Security Group.
Step 12: you will see below screen, As below Select existing Security Group radio button & from list
below choose the security group you created earlier. Then click on Review and Launch at the right
bottom & on the next screen Click on Launch button

Step 13: once you click on Launch button you will see a popup as below,

From the first Drop Down, Select Create a New key pair then below
Key Pair Name field enter any name & then click on Download Key Pair Button
Ensure the Key Pair (demo.pem as below) downloaded successfully

Once the Key Pair is successfully downloaded Click on Launch Instance

Step 14: after clicking on Launch Instance you will see below Screen, Click on View Instances
button on bottom right corner

Step 15: then we will land on below page, wait for couple of minutes you should see your instance in
running state.

Select the instance and go through the details below what are all the details it shows up.
Step 16: Click on Connect on the screen below.

Step 17: You will view this popup – Connect to your instance.
To connect to the VM, follow the instructions, Copy the ssh line as highlighted below, then click on
close
 Step 18: Download & Install Git Bash on your System (you can search “download gitbash in google”
& click on the link https://git-scm.com/downloads)

Click on Windows if you are using windows, it will download an .exe file; install the Git Bash with
default setting. After that

Go to the folder where you saved the .pem file and do right click and run GitBash Here.

Note: git bash is required only for windows machine user only. Mac Users can user the terminal on Mac
directly
Step 19: Once GitBash opens, run the following command to the public VM instance you created.

ssh -i "demo.pem" [email protected]

The connection is established.