- Welcome to our first demonstration.
In this demo we're gonna take a look at the AWS console
and become a little bit more familiar
with the way that we're going to be moving
around through it, as quite a lot of the demonstrations
are going to utilize the console.
The AWS console is basically how you interact
with the AWS ecosystem using a browser
and it does require credentials
and so we are gonna have to log in.
I have already gone to aws.amazon.com
and what you'll find with the AWS console
is that anytime you see bright orange buttons,
those are important tasks.
And so we're gonna go up to this top right corner
where we have 'sign in to the AWS console' and click
And, as we have not created any other users yet --
I only have a root user available --
we're gonna go ahead and log in using that.
Now I've already saved it there
And once we hit next, it's going to do a captcha
and we're gonna have to type this in properly
before we do anything else.
We're gonna find out if I can do it right
on the first try.
And I did not, so we'll do it again.
There we go.
And now I enter my password, but that's not all.
I also have MFA set up.
We're gonna talk a little bit about MFA,
or multifactor authentication.
For my account I use a mobile app called Authy -- A U T H Y.
But you can use really any app that allows you
to scan a QR code like Google authenticator.
So let me go ahead and type in my token.
Soon as it switches over to the new one, there we go.
And we're logged in.
Now I happen to have no recently visited services.
This is the first time I've used this account
in this browser
And so it's not going to remember
any of the previous behavior.
So what we're gonna take a look at first
is the fact that on every page in AWS
there's a bottom left hand corner for feedback.
If you run into a problem
or you just like to make suggestions,
you can do that here.
And these don't just drop into a black hole.
In fact, there are entire teams at AWS who are responsible
for these messages as they make their way
through to slack channels on the back end.
Now we can see here all the way at the top left,
we have services,
so we can click here and we can see all
of the different building blocks but we would need to know
which of those building blocks the services are in
that we would like to look at.
We can also just search for them here.
We can type the word compute
or we could provide a more specific name like EC2
and it's going to come up exactly.
Now we can drill down farther than services.
There's also features:
blogs, documentation and so forth
for every one of these terms that we put in there.
Now, the one of the services that I'd like to show you,
you can remember it as PHD: the Personal Health Dashboard.
This is one way of getting a view
of what's going on in your AWS account.
Now, if I had a bunch of workloads deployed with resources
when AWS performs maintenance,
a lot of times that will show up in here
as scheduled events or changes
and you can react accordingly.
And we can also go at the top right.
We can see that the personal health dashboard
is a global service.
It does show a list of regions
but we would need to pick a region scoped service
like EC2 in order for that to be selected
and to be able to move around throughout those regions.
At the top right is an important dropdown
where we can see our account ID
And then we could look at account details,
the billing dashboard, and our security credentials.
So that finishes this first demo
And we're gonna be doing a lot more in the AWS console,
So it helps to become a little bit familiar with it first.