AWS® Essentials for Dummies

Welcome to the AWS Essential content, where we are dedicated to getting started on your AWS journey. This AWS essential book is going to introduce you to products, services and common solutions. It is going to provide you with the fundamentals to become more provision in identifying which AWS service to use, so that you can make better decisions about how to build IT solutions based upon your business requirements. And we will say how you can get started using the AWS platform.

This book will teach you how to recognize the terminology and key concepts as they relate to the AWS platform and also help you navigate the AWS management console. We are going to cover our foundational services and these include services like:

  1. Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)
  2. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
  3. Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and
  4. Elastic Block Store (EBS)

You will also learn about the key security measures that we provide to you as a customer and a very important service called Identity Access Management (IAM).