Learn to work with the most fundamental services AWS offers such as DynamoDB, S3, and EC2 to create reliable and scalable systems.

Scalability & System Design for Developers

In this module, we’ll learn to work with the most fundamental services AWS offers, such as DynamoDB, S3, and EC2 to create reliable and scalable systems. Walk through getting a basic web application running in the cloud on AWS. You won’t find most of the knowledge that's shared here in the AWS docs.

The Good Parts of AWS: Cutting Through the Clutter

# Objective
- Get a simple web application running on a single EC2 instance.

# Steps

- Manually create basic AWS infrastructure to host our application.
- Manually install our application on an EC2 instance.

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# Hosting our application

If you don't already have an AWS account, [you will need to create one](https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup).

> ⚠️You should never use your AWS root account credentials other than to create an Administrator user for your account. AWS has [several best practices](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/best-practices.html) for managing accounts and credentials.
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> If you are creating a new AWS account or you don’t yet have an Administrator user, use the root account to [create an Administrator user](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html) now, and then use only that user.

Creation of AWS infrastructure manually to host our application is performed in this lesson. We then will install our web application on an EC2 instance.

Starting from Scratch: Manual AWS Infrastructure

Objective

Steps

Hosting our application