This one day Amazon Web Services workshop will provide you with a step-by-step introduction to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cornerstones.

All setup procedures and practical work will be carried out on your own portable device to allow for AWS continued and future use.

A brief history of remote access and virtualisation

• Telnet
• Images

Hosting

• Shared
• Slice

Food for thought Part 1

• The non-differentiating "heavy-lifting"
• Storage, cpu, memory and bandwidth as a commodity
• “Planning for failure"

The AWS Management Console

• Region
• EC2 Dashboard
• Instances
• Images
• Elastic Block Store
• Network & Security

Pricing

• The AWS Simple Monthly Calculator

Security Credentials

• Access Credentials
• Sign-In Credentials
• Account Identifiers
• Creating key pairs
• Creating private keys

Configuring the AWS toolkit

• Command line tools
• Firefox add-ons
• AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

Security groups

• Allowing connections

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

• Locating
• Binding key pairs
• Binding security groups
• Launching On-Demand and Spot instances

Elastic IP Addresses

• Allocating
• Associating to an instance

Private versus public instance DNS

• Cost considerations

Accessing instances

• SSH
• Remote desktop
• VNC

Elastic Block Store (EBS)

• Creating, attaching and formatting EBS volumes

Backing-up EBS volumes

• Snapshots
• Sharing snapshots

Deploying ready-made stacks

• IIS MSSQL
• Java
• LAMP
• Python
• Ruby

Transferring data around your cloud

• Practicalities
• Cost considerations

Creating S3 buckets

• Tools
• Permissions

Creating and registering your own AMIs

• EBS
• S3
• Regions revisited
• Tools
• Permissions

Tidying up

• Disassociating Elastic IP Addresses from instances
• Releasing Elastic IP Addresses
• Detaching EBS volumes
• Terminating instances

How much did it cost?

• Account Activity
• Usage Reports

Food for thought Part 2

• AWS money leaks