AWS Services

1 - Introduction to AWS

Core services:

• Compute:
  • EC2
• Storage:
  • S3
• Database:
  • RDS
• Networking & Content Delivery
  • VPC
• Security, Identity & Compliance
  • IAM
• Containers
  • ECR - registry
  • Elastic Kubernetes Service

Scopes of Services

• Global
  • Regions
    • AZ Scopes

Create an AWS account

https://aws.amazon.com/

IAM - Manage Users, Roles and Permissions

IAM: Identity and Access Management

Once you create an root account, it's better to create an admin account, with less permissions

• ROOT users
  • ADMIN users
    • System Users

Users vs. Roles

Role for each Service, Policy specific to Service.