1 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:09,750 - Welcome to our first demonstration. 2 00:00:09,750 --> 00:00:14,370 In this demo we're gonna take a look at the AWS console 3 00:00:14,370 --> 00:00:16,620 and become a little bit more familiar 4 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:18,230 with the way that we're going to be moving 5 00:00:18,230 --> 00:00:21,960 around through it, as quite a lot of the demonstrations 6 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,780 are going to utilize the console. 7 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:27,607 The AWS console is basically how you interact 8 00:00:27,607 --> 00:00:30,960 with the AWS ecosystem using a browser 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,160 and it does require credentials 10 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:35,227 and so we are gonna have to log in. 11 00:00:35,227 --> 00:00:38,513 I have already gone to aws.amazon.com 12 00:00:38,513 --> 00:00:41,770 and what you'll find with the AWS console 13 00:00:41,770 --> 00:00:46,160 is that anytime you see bright orange buttons, 14 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:47,940 those are important tasks. 15 00:00:47,940 --> 00:00:50,310 And so we're gonna go up to this top right corner 16 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:52,910 where we have 'sign in to the AWS console' and click 17 00:00:54,190 --> 00:00:58,100 And, as we have not created any other users yet -- 18 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:01,030 I only have a root user available -- 19 00:01:01,030 --> 00:01:03,760 we're gonna go ahead and log in using that. 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,990 Now I've already saved it there 21 00:01:06,990 --> 00:01:11,990 And once we hit next, it's going to do a captcha 22 00:01:12,070 --> 00:01:15,130 and we're gonna have to type this in properly 23 00:01:15,130 --> 00:01:17,120 before we do anything else. 24 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,090 We're gonna find out if I can do it right 25 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:20,633 on the first try. 26 00:01:22,950 --> 00:01:25,743 And I did not, so we'll do it again. 27 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,560 There we go. 28 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:34,560 And now I enter my password, but that's not all. 29 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:36,680 I also have MFA set up. 30 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,060 We're gonna talk a little bit about MFA, 31 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:41,630 or multifactor authentication. 32 00:01:41,630 --> 00:01:46,630 For my account I use a mobile app called Authy -- A U T H Y. 33 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,370 But you can use really any app that allows you 34 00:01:51,370 --> 00:01:55,110 to scan a QR code like Google authenticator. 35 00:01:55,110 --> 00:01:58,810 So let me go ahead and type in my token. 36 00:01:58,810 --> 00:02:02,163 Soon as it switches over to the new one, there we go. 37 00:02:04,930 --> 00:02:06,023 And we're logged in. 38 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,440 Now I happen to have no recently visited services. 39 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:13,500 This is the first time I've used this account 40 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:14,333 in this browser 41 00:02:14,333 --> 00:02:16,240 And so it's not going to remember 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,083 any of the previous behavior. 43 00:02:19,510 --> 00:02:21,860 So what we're gonna take a look at first 44 00:02:21,860 --> 00:02:25,943 is the fact that on every page in AWS 45 00:02:27,490 --> 00:02:30,523 there's a bottom left hand corner for feedback. 46 00:02:31,460 --> 00:02:33,790 If you run into a problem 47 00:02:33,790 --> 00:02:36,600 or you just like to make suggestions, 48 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,183 you can do that here. 49 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:42,460 And these don't just drop into a black hole. 50 00:02:42,460 --> 00:02:46,120 In fact, there are entire teams at AWS who are responsible 51 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,920 for these messages as they make their way 52 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,163 through to slack channels on the back end. 53 00:02:53,850 --> 00:02:56,040 Now we can see here all the way at the top left, 54 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,440 we have services, 55 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,490 so we can click here and we can see all 56 00:02:59,490 --> 00:03:04,060 of the different building blocks but we would need to know 57 00:03:04,060 --> 00:03:06,490 which of those building blocks the services are in 58 00:03:06,490 --> 00:03:08,640 that we would like to look at. 59 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,050 We can also just search for them here. 60 00:03:11,050 --> 00:03:13,380 We can type the word compute 61 00:03:13,380 --> 00:03:16,850 or we could provide a more specific name like EC2 62 00:03:18,010 --> 00:03:20,978 and it's going to come up exactly. 63 00:03:20,978 --> 00:03:24,250 Now we can drill down farther than services. 64 00:03:24,250 --> 00:03:25,960 There's also features: 65 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,150 blogs, documentation and so forth 66 00:03:29,150 --> 00:03:33,535 for every one of these terms that we put in there. 67 00:03:33,535 --> 00:03:37,244 Now, the one of the services that I'd like to show you, 68 00:03:37,244 --> 00:03:42,244 you can remember it as PHD: the Personal Health Dashboard. 69 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:44,930 This is one way of getting a view 70 00:03:44,930 --> 00:03:48,960 of what's going on in your AWS account. 71 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,540 Now, if I had a bunch of workloads deployed with resources 72 00:03:53,540 --> 00:03:56,380 when AWS performs maintenance, 73 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:59,020 a lot of times that will show up in here 74 00:03:59,020 --> 00:04:01,200 as scheduled events or changes 75 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,853 and you can react accordingly. 76 00:04:05,330 --> 00:04:07,660 And we can also go at the top right. 77 00:04:07,660 --> 00:04:10,330 We can see that the personal health dashboard 78 00:04:10,330 --> 00:04:12,230 is a global service. 79 00:04:12,230 --> 00:04:14,600 It does show a list of regions 80 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:19,040 but we would need to pick a region scoped service 81 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,460 like EC2 in order for that to be selected 82 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:26,683 and to be able to move around throughout those regions. 83 00:04:27,820 --> 00:04:31,350 At the top right is an important dropdown 84 00:04:31,350 --> 00:04:33,510 where we can see our account ID 85 00:04:33,510 --> 00:04:35,940 And then we could look at account details, 86 00:04:35,940 --> 00:04:40,450 the billing dashboard, and our security credentials. 87 00:04:40,450 --> 00:04:42,690 So that finishes this first demo 88 00:04:42,690 --> 00:04:46,540 And we're gonna be doing a lot more in the AWS console, 89 00:04:46,540 --> 00:04:49,853 So it helps to become a little bit familiar with it first.