AWS (Amazon Web Services) Introduction

What is AWS?
-IaaS
-Compute
-Storage
-Networking
-Database
-DNS
-Global Data Centers
AWS vs. Linode/ Digital Ocean
-IaaS vs. VPS
Benefits of AWS
-Highly Scalable
-TCO is Generally Lower Than Private Infrastructure
-Highly Reliable for Price Point
-Centralized Billing and Management
Problems with AWS
-Lock In
-Learning Curve
-Building Correct Infrastructure
-Cost Adds Up…
Pricing of AWS
-Compute Pricing
-Storage Pricing
-Bandwidth Pricing
-Interaction Pricing
Migrating to AWS
-Can Be As Simple As A Normal Migration
-For Full Benefits You May Need To Reimagine/ Rebuild Entire Architecture
Certification / Education
-aws.amazon.com/certification/
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[@Orchardman53]

I started in IT way back in 1970, but wanted to catch up on AWS. It's not often you see such a good introduction to a technology. Well done.

[@kzrider8]

That was THE AWESOME introduction to AWS. Thank you so much!

[@samuelhailai2168]

I love Eli, I used to watch his video when I joint IT industry couple of years ago, it feel good to see him lecture to new technologies

[@SooperBeez]

Watch this on 1.25 Speed, much better.

[@Chubbycat747]

+SooperBeez Much better!

[@workdowg]

+SooperBeez I started at 1.25 then moved to 1.5....

[@technusknight5074]

+SooperBeez how about 2 ?

[@AndreiTapia]

+SooperBeez Surprinsingly by doing this(x1.5) I found him less obnoxious than usual o_O

[@Potenti4lz]

Thanks, probably shave off a few minutes overall. Hah

[@SevenBates]

Hey Eli, this was a really damn good introduction to AWS. Sometimes I dig ya for being too long winded, but you didn't repeat yourself much here and you touched on everything important. Much appreciated. This single video gave me everything I needed to begin researching 5 of their services I specifically needed, one of which, I didn't KNOW I needed.

[@AnthonyChats]

After watching endless overly technical videos (as you explained at the start of the video), this finally laid things out easily for a relative novice like me. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@abnerchaires506]

great job explaining, Eli! I'm considering learning this line of work in the next coming years and cannot appreciate you enough for clearly explaining what AWS is capable of!

[@the15car]

I was skeptical at first that an unshaven guy in an orange shirt named "Eli the computer guy" was going to be equivalent of the guy around the corner with the "PC Repair" yard sign in front of his house. I was pleasantly surprised. Good overview of AWS and general cloud principles. Enjoyed the presentation and humor. I did watch on 1.25x speed for expediency.

[@arkihillel]

Good talk. I'm a long time (≈ 3 years) user of AWS. I agree with you on the idea, just a couple of remarks: 1 - You just write scripts that are run through Lambda. These scripts do not have any Lambda specific syntax. You can basically copy them and run them wherever you want. 2 - Cassandra is an Apache open-source technology. Again, nothing AWS specific. DynamoDB though is their interesting, highly scale-able, proprietary database. Aside from this, scale-able AWS techs are always best financially considered as linear. If 1 user costs $0.01, a thousand cost $10. Running, say a storage service, on your own VPS or even through EC2 makes things leveled. More or less, cheaper 50% of the time, more expensive the other 50% of the time. Add maintenance, may that be software or hardware, and you'll lose some of the gains you have in a self managed environments. When you are really getting locked up in AWS is whenever you start interacting with all their services. For example, playing with their software defined networking programmatically in order to auto scale.

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[@cathalfarrell1132]

I hope you do more of these in the future. I've been thinking about doing an AWS cert so timing is perfect :-)

[@MrPachaa94]

Have you succesfully done a cert?

[@pradeepsingh-kr2hv]

really great introduction. very helpful. thanks.

[@bicboi46]

I have been taking notes throughout this whole video thank you so much for the knowledge you gave me

[@rickelmonoggin]

I'm glad you say that it's not easy. Does my head in when anything in IT is described as 'easy' or 'simple' when it almost never is.

[@acidmardigras6235]

@ 19:47 dude....lol....you're hilarious. You won't get tutorials as entertaining anywhere. Keep being you Eli.

[@rohanab1487]

wow, that was an awesome intro....now I know exactly what they do...loved the way u said how sys admin used to be and what they need to have in todays world...u motivated me to learn AWS, as I am aged and kinda old school sys admin :) thank you...Eli

[@Leekyization]

Thank you for a great video - very concise and entertaining and it definitely gave me a more thorough understanding of AWS. Thank you once again, Eli.

[@parker-sg8tx]

Eli, this video was incredibly helpful and informative! I am now a life long subscriber to your videos. Thank you! :D

[@jfsolorzano]

Thanks a lot Eli ! Great intro on AWS! You should do a similar one on Azure!

[@aluhjohnson5924]

ELi you are amazing in all your tutorials... you align me so well with your articles

[@qualityrenov]

Eli, you're just AWESOME! thank you for posting this.

[@bantublood]

I totally love and enjoyed every second of this video. If you did trainings I would learn much better with the way and pace at which you explain these concepts. I love the "animation". You totally arrested my attention.

[@SignalBurden]

I was looking for a vid that gave me a good low-down on AWS - much appreciated!

[@twinturbo3461]

The best 2 questions are : (1) What does it do ? (2) How does it work ? ... this video does an excellent job on answering both.

[@JeanCarloMontesReyna]

Very nice input into AWS. every time I watch your video I leave learning a ton of new information.

[@RobertOfStAlbans_]

From Windows Server 2012 to AWS! Eli, I'm ready!

[@nitintyagi2024]

Awesome video to explain AWS and other things briefly with examples and cost factor into account.

[@user-kj3he9wy6r]

Thoroughly explained. Thank you!

[@RavikarnRawal]

You always simplify the complex environment with the way you explain. Thanks. Dear Eli, Sponsors surely gets clicks. :-)

[@Snappers1_]

You know, your presentation of the video is so good that I’m watching the sponsors.

[@Eric-ru9sx]

Your videos make my day. I don't care how old they are, but Eli, in my opinion you're the man haha. I take every bit of your advice and try to make sure I work on everything. You give great introductions, and sometimes I watch things a couple times just so I didn't miss anything. This is an older video, bur at this point August 2017, should someone in the industry be more concerned witness AWS, Docker, Azure, or once you get one the rest are seriously,pretty intuitive? Even if I don't get an answer, your videos are great.

[@ChrisLeeX]

Loved this. Thank you for sharing.

[@ekhalkov]

Hi Eli, Love your channel. What kind of watch are you wearing? Thank you.

[@shanmugarajagovindan2758]

Good composition and Perfect articulation

[@ronnies6668]

Eli youre the man. These videos are really helpful

[@JohnnyD50]

I really like your basic business logic for IT guys in the case of a start up

[@cricketkiran]

Eli, your videos are awesome. I have learnt a lot from you. Thank you.

[@wastafus]

Eli, great class!

[@etdeepak]

Thank you so much for great explanation about AWS....

[@ahahahabmbc1075]

Awesome explanation of scalability :)

[@RandyHanley]

"Hipster at TechCrunch". Hilarious and true!

[@martinmay100]

OMG, we deployed and tested SMS Server hosted @ AWS but at that time, had no idea that AWS was as big, and capable to host a lot more services. True its a real Iaas This has been very helpful

[@RyanEstep5877]

Thank you for this explanation.

[@user-uu7ub5gb6l]

best teacher ever! amazingly useful easy to understand content!

[@jay6817]

Just preparing for my exam in Cloud Computing AWS as part of Cyber Security. Your presentations style is way more engaging than most. As you're mostly just talking would be good as a blog for audio only. Save data usage :-)

[@Adapt-wj5gi]

Very good tutorial thanks!

[@fosatech]

Your old man voice is on point!

[@druca]

Really great explanation, thank you!

[@VATechAlum]

Excellent Overview Eli! Nice work!!

[@g3x999]

Love the videos and advice! Programming is such a wide field but i'm starting with VB and C++ :)

[@benbarling3790]

Nice introduction tutorial. Cheers.

[@user-jk4qc2wu5o]

Its really good information who just want to connect the dots in terms of cloud solution.

[@leonphelps]

I'm late but thanks for the video. I've been preparing to take AWS Solutions Architect certification for oh say the past year! lol I'm going to get around to taking the test one of these days but I tinker with my free AWS platforms often to keep myself familiar.

[@onwardvet6908]

Hey Eli, great class, thanks! If we have a .net app using sql server back-end, is Azure a better fit since its all Microsoft, or should we also consider AWS ?

[@tishg4808]

I freaking LOVE you.....always so helpful, thanks!

[@dirtyonion1]

Thanks a bunch for these insights and information. I appreciate your knowledge! You mentioned you wouldn't exactly start with earning an AWS certification. I'm wondering where you would begin if you were to pursue a certification as a recent MIS graduate interested in a career in IT/IS. The Cloud is here to stay! Thanks in advance, Eli!

[@HellSamael]

41:30 : "migrating to AWS.. how it goes..It can either be very difficult or it can be be very hard" :)) . Great introduction BTW

[@bigj7807]

Hey plixer is right in town, Kennebunk ME. Cool to see a local company mentioned.

[@elwerfally]

You are so awesome buddy I like the way you present it is so interesting keep it up please.

[@videomarketinghamburg]

Thanks a lot for this video. Clear explanation. Tx again

[@markbrowne181]

Very informative. Thank you.

[@sk3097]

Very helpful, thanks Eli. Please make a video on NFV as well ...😑👏🏾

[@ADAMSIVES]

helps me a lot thanx. Keep posting!

[@AJANZ27]

You mentioned at the end about not getting certified in AWS first, what certifications would you recommend getting before AWS?

[@twitchhan2235]

thanks for your introduction.

[@Sandium]

love your vids keep up the good word ^.^

[@Starius2]

hey eli, what is a good networking simulator?

[@TheBadMadMan786]

Nice video Eli. Speaking of certifications...What would be the CORE certifications that would be advised to aquire for a System Admin career (windows mainly). I'm expecting to be advised the usual MS certifcations etc. But I am still keen to hear what everyone has to add.

[@emergs20]

Good Job!! You made me smile A lot!!!!

[@superspectator123]

Another great video. Thank you.

[@acidmardigras6235]

Eli, I am not a gay man. I love you Eli! Dude. I watched so many other videos....I am not anti-Indian. It's just that the accent alone is disengaging. You relay and TEACH magnificently. You know you do. You are void of ego. You have single handedly given many people careers to support their families. For this, I...."we" thank you. Sincerely.

[@acidmardigras6235]

If any AWS folk have lab access and are near Little Elm TX, please reply to this post. Thanks!

[@vaptoday7472]

This is awesome! Good job!

[@TikiShootah]

holy crap, time to fulfill a need. setting up cloud services in Africa and Middleast. get that money just laying on the table.

[@chimereokoro1290]

TikiShootah there's a huge market in telecoms and banking data.

[@ajghamdi7188]

Totally agree.

[@madeinindia7765]

23:47...we make a BANG! Love the way you said it 😊

[@dadtalksvision]

good intro, simple and easy

[@Potenti4lz]

With auto-scaling, you can set the min/max parameters, right?

[@kab68]

Hi Eli - towards then end of this video you mentioned that AWS wouldn't be the first thing you got certified in, what would you recommend is the first thing? Thanks!

[@jordanbrauer]

Why do you not have more views and subscribers?! You're teaching for free! Come on people!!!

[@bigj7807]

I'm glad you pointed out the idea that when you build infrastructure for your company your going to have to pay a guy 100k + a year plus all the equipment and still hope it's reliable when you can just hope on the AWS band wagon.

[@acloudsecninja]

Great intro !

[@Homeruninstallations]

Thanks again Eli!

[@ernestas10]

Will there be something on azure? Or it's too similar and there's no point in different videos? Would love a comparison video.

[@lngwnd1]

great video! Hey just wondering.. Do you do JuJitsu?

[@simpleasme]

You are my IT guru...:)

[@75west]

another advantage of amazon is it's easy to expand across the US, from NY to LA. also from US to Europe. I've used softlayer I thought it was pretty good.

[@sam-zy2dn]

A general question. When we upload our source codes of our application data included the server side scripts and calculations, how the security of the source code will be in AWS cloud? for example AWS employee could see your source files if they want?

[@modular182]

Good stuff. Thank you.

[@Kisai_Yuki]

AWS is super-expensive, and people often fail to recognize what the purpose of AWS is. eg, it is not "a web host", if you use it like a conventional web host (eg a wordpress site,) it will cost several hundred dollars per month, or per day, mostly on the bandwidth end or from over-provisioning. Buying your own server and dropping it in a 42U rack somewhere is cheaper than using AWS for web hosting, and if anyone recommends using AWS for running "a website", is literately setting money on fire for no reason. AWS is also not a "file server/FTP/remote-NAS", again for the same reason above. I've seen people spend thousands of dollars for AWS services that could have been handled by a single VPS that costs less than 100$/mo. This is because they do not understand their "off the shelf" software needs. A "Wordpress" site running all the popular plugins, but no caching (because they want the changes to the site to be instant) you're going to need 60 times the CPU resources. So instead of maybe installing the correct content caching and php opcode cache and bringing the performance up, they instead buy 60 instances of the web front end. This is something you can pay someone 100$/hr to setup correctly the first time.

[@aurelientabuefoto5484]

Hi

[@gutenh.4570]

So, what's your recommendation for designing web and hosting? Wix?

[@Shipslitz]

I like this guy. smart 👍

[@sabirpoonoor]

Good Introduction

[@nonameX1]

Eli you the best! *THUMBS UP*

[@sypher294]

Thanks, Dude!

[@Mazel_Tov_888]

still relevant 4 years later.

[@xogmaster]

you are one hell of a salesman

[@Postalpacifist]

Any way you'll have these live at some point?

[@debojyotis]

Thanks Eli

[@dvirpeercom]

thank you so much, helped me a lot (:

[@ther6989]

I wonder why there's not a GDC in South Africa. I think it'd make sense to put one there.

[@StuffOffYouStuff]

getting a bug crowd generated 404 for the bug crowd one. Not sure if that will affect your link referal stats. Great video as usual

[@hanaaalmansoob6827]

Thank you..

[@andriyt9180]

Hey Eli, sorry if I missed you mentioning it but you can get a One Year trial access to pretty much entire catalog of services for free with AWS. And considering that Netflix has moved their entire content distribution to Amazon that must be something good about it, haha