Getting Started with AWS | Amazon Web Services BASICS

[@sourabhvaishnav8235]

This guy ladies and gentlemen, taught me how to code for the first time. I made a backend in Node.js, I used everything he taught. I used bcrypt, used cors, mongoose.connect, nodemon, made schemas....everything. Then I made the front-end in React, I used axios, used UI libraries like material.... then I connected them. Then I learnt to host via AWS. It is always awesome to spent time watching his videos over a coffee. Never pen down anything, this is not a chemistry class.......always go and run commands, practically do it. That's what I did, years back. Now I am a FULL STACK DEVELOPER. ALL THANKS TO MAX.

[@DragonKidPlaysMC]

Sourabh Vaishnav i also want to be a software engineer but my family thinks I wouldn’t be successful with it. :((

[@sourabhvaishnav8235]

@@DragonKidPlaysMC just ask 2 years from your family. Give it all to MAX's video. He will turn you into someone, you family always wanted to see. Or you can give me a whatsapp call , anywhere if stuck.

[@DragonKidPlaysMC]

Sourabh Vaishnav I’m a senior in high school and I would convince my family to reach for my dream. (Hopefully)

[@hagridhaired]

That's so awesome to hear, congratulations! I'm going through his node.js class right now, and I'm blown away by how detailed his explanations are. It really helps me understand the context of each technology, and how each technology he uses is pieced together like a puzzle. I'm interested in taking his AWS course, but I saw that he uses DynamoDB, but I was interested in using a relational database. Do you think the knowledge learned in that course can be translated to another AWS service like RDS?

[@MrMikomi]

The mind boggles at how much we are expected to know as developers. There seems no end to the amount of cross-cutting languages, frameworks, concepts etc that we are expected to understand and become proficient in.

[@dhidhi1000]

You don't need to be proficient in so many things, it's like saying an engineer has to actually know those many hundreds pages books. In practice you'll know what you're looking for and ignore 99% of the stuff.

[@randiaz95]

@@dhidhi1000 Diego I know you mean well, but do you have a software engineering job?

[@TelmaFrege]

As a Software Engineer with 18 years of experience: I agree with you. It's the best and worst of working in IT: 1) It keeps your career interesting because you're learning all the time (there is no way I could work on a field that hasn't changed at all in decades, it would bore me to death!), 2) At the same time, there is no "downtime"... you have to keep learning what's new out there and that gets stressful some times. You don't have to master everything, but have at least a basic knowledge of what's out there. At this very moment, I'm studying for my AWS Architect certification.

[@theamjolnir9641]

Haaaahaaaahaaaaaaaaaa

[@cmmarsden]

MrMikomi I know

[@gameragedad8953]

Thanks for the great advice Max. Now I have to share some great advice with you as well. Do not blur your confidential information in videos and pictures. Hackers have written programs that brute force blur images and compare them to your blurred images by pixel comparison algorithms. It is very easy for these algorithms to guess the correct numbers/letters compared to a blurred image. This essentially means they can unblur your confidential information and get all your credit card and other confidential information by these continued guesses and fancy algorithms. The correct way to redact your information when publishing media is to write over it with black pixels/rectangles.

[@academind]

Thanks for the notice. The blurred content isn't really that confidential to be honest - just information I don't necessarily need to share with everyone (e.g. my personal mail). If people were to extract it - so be it, the password is not part of the video. I'll keep it in mind though, you are right about the increasing possibilities of things like this to happen

[@taysmith9692]

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[@mayank_upadhyay_19]

This comment is making me sweat. I would definitely check out my older shared videos.

[@eriklarsson2293]

You're a king, Max. You have helped me find love doing something I can do every day and even get paid for. It's one of the greatest gifts. Thanks!

[@nguaial8490]

i love you man. i cannot survive this jungle without you. it is too overwhelming.

[@academind]

Thanks a lot for your comment Nguai! AWS can definitely be confusing sometimes so I'm really happy to read that my videos helped to make things clearer for you :)

[@ranjan_v]

Thank you very much Max, you are helping a lot of students

[@njabulombuli3609]

Max I am busy going through your course on react and I can't thank you enough 😄 Your accent threw me off in the beginning but once I got used to it, I felt like I was being taught by a Swiss scientist lol😅 Thanks again Max. Even your youtube videos are on point👍

[@academind]

Thank you so much for your amazing feedback Njabulo!

[@warronfrench8163]

Another note, Maximillian/Academind, this is the first video I have been able to find that explains what I wanted to know... HOW to GET STARTED. (sorry for the caps). I have been reviewing KZbin links looking for something precisely like this for months.

[@jeffjcd]

Thank You so much Max! started on Udemy, then got the pro course for 5 month ongoing. Just finished the UI for my react native, now getting ready to launch. Thank You Thank You so much!!!

[@ranjeevpauluzzi9942]

I really loved the pop up : " AGGRESSIVE PRICING = GOOD FOR YOU" , I didn't know that , thank you

[@heatherdorrian6566]

This was one of the most comprehensive videos on AWS. Thank you!

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video. Max. Every time I come across your videos, I enjoy them. Watched this one in early 2020 and now watching it again by the end of 2020!

[@istwishmeister9368]

You have just break the barrier between me and aws by making this video. Danke Max.

[@academind]

So cool to read that, thanks so much for your great feedback!

[@Shree79124]

In india we are calling you GURU, great max thanks for making web development courses easier.

[@abdullahmoiz8151]

This is by far the best video on aws I have seen Brilliant work

[@academind]

It's just amazing to receive such a wonderful feedback, thank you very much Abdullah!

[@shirazisam455]

Super presentation and tutorial. I'm currently following you "AWS Serverless APIs" course and this brought me here as an optional section.

[@academind]

Awesome to read that you like the video and the course Shiraz! Thank you for your support :)

[@workingTchr]

The best introduction to AWS I've been able to find so for.

[@Muslimgirl003]

Amazing content as always, Max! I swear it feels like home whenever I desperately look for a video about a certain topic and see a video of yours pop up!

[@academind]

Wow, thank you!

[@BruceOlsen]

Very nice - clear and concise with enough detail to understand some of the behind the scenes actions.

[@academind]

Very happy to read that you liked the video Bruce, thank you!

[@akioumars]

As always, Max creates extra ordinary courses. I love he course Max. Very easy to understand and extremely informative. Thank you Max for creating awesome videos and share your valuable knowledge with us. I follow you everywhere you go to learn from you.

[@gufranmirza1253]

So Max, finally you want your every subscriber to be a full stack developer . :-)

[@academind]

All developers are welcome :)

[@MukeshKumar-rk8qe]

Songs

[@luolisave]

Ha-ha

[@FerrumCorde]

woah why can't we transcend and be stackless developers

[@daggawagga]

Lol! This is the first time I find a good KZbin channel only after buying one of its courses. Usually it's the other way around

[@academind]

That's so cool to read, thanks a lot for your support on Udemy and now also here on KZbin! I hope that you will also find other interesting videos here on the channel :)

[@kamikazehard]

that "We see.... WHOA!" was awesome

[@tacarson]

I wish i had seen this a year ago! Such a clear explanation for a very confusing topic to start learning. Thank you so much for your help!

[@academind]

Thanks so much Tate, happy to hear that this was helpful!

[@dzengiztafa510]

Just had my first day of AWS training @ work & was handed my certificate of completion. Excellent video! Hoping to host a react app there in the near future

[@zeeraViewer]

Writing in 2021, AWS seems to be pushing Lambda as their flexible option in contrast to EC2 which is constrained by the parameters you pick. But I'll bet that for most developers "Elastic Beanstalk" (not talked about nearly as much) is the flexible option they're looking for. And, of course, many thanks to Max. Your videos are a breath of fresh air into these murky subjects.

[@NguyenTran-eq2wg]

Thank you so much for such a detailed tutorial! Exactly what many and I needed to start hosting their web app!

[@bridgetsarah7573]

Thank you for the video, that's been the best video I've seen how to do it! Highly recommended!

[@academind]

So happy to read that Bridget, thank you!

[@RightBackInRehab]

Best Software Development Tutor on the Web.

[@academind]

Thank you :)

[@kareemabdellatif6288]

For people who follow this video steps and don't find the node command option in the configuration. AWS changed it. Now you have to add a file and name it Procfile its extension is .file and write in it web: npm start AWS detects this file and run this command

[@arakwar]

I didn't knew you had a KZbin channel. I followed your Angular class on Udemy and it was really complete!

[@academind]

So awesome to also have you on board of the KZbin channel now Sébastien! I hope you can also find some interesting topics here :)

[@bennyjones1502]

One question - what happens when at 22:30, my Health says "OK" instead of "Degraded"? Is something wrong, because my application is healthy? Or is this some kind of AWS update where they've fixed this? Thank you for your kind tutorial!

[@qadeerahmad3963]

You are Best with your good Teaching Skills. I want to work on AWS you made it very easy. Simply Thanks Max!

[@academind]

Thanks so much, that's really amazing to hear!

[@shiva_tharun]

Thank You so much Max!! Awesome tutorial!!

[@academind]

Thank YOU for your awesome comment Tharun :)

[@PsychologyinTamil]

Thank you so much, now I am sure AWS is not for me.

[@lakers24kobebr]

Can you explain what made you think this? Just curious

[@poonamchaudhary5439]

How can I worked aws.as part time..

[@AP-bo1if]

@@lakers24kobebr AWS is garbage hosting service.

[@polypus74]

@@AP-bo1if right, because you say so i guess? care to qualify/elaborate?

[@AP-bo1if]

@@polypus74 yes exactly, because I say so. I've used amazon AWS for years and for most general purposes, it's expensive, convoluted, has hidden fees and the performance to cost ratio is crap compared to other hosting platforms. but they've managed to convince a bunch of gullible fools out there - including me (with billions of dollars of marketing) to think that AWS is the next best thing. granted, there are ways to utilize AWS to get the most out of it at the lowest cost possible, which is what some hosting providers have done; developed a system around AWS. but unless you or your organization has time and money to burn, AWS simply makes no sense in most general web hosting cases. Web hosting and AWS is akin to automobiles and German over-engineering. Sure German over-engineering is great, it all works but it's going to cost you a hell of a lot more to get you from point a to point b, and when things go wrong you better know what you're looking for. but you're free to disagree for all I care.

[@Oscar-cd8rn]

Best tutorial I found for getting started with AWS. Thanks!

[@academind]

So cool to read that, thank you so much Oscar!

[@ajitprabhu3386]

What a great and easy to understand introduction to AWS! Thanks a lot.

[@academind]

Thank YOU for your absolutely amazing feedback Ajit!

[@Humblyguided]

Thanks for sharing. This is the best video for tutorials for newbie

[@leelokje]

Wonderful introduction! Well explained. I am hoping to learn AWS faster by watching your videos. Thank you for all the time and effort you invested in the creations of your tutorials! I really appreciate you for that!

[@academind]

It makes me so happy to read comments like yours Leontine! Enjoy the videos and I hope you have fun with AWS :)

[@pauldubois3739]

Max, As always, great job in helping us dig into technology! I just started your Udemy course, "AWS Serverless APIs & Apps - A Complete Introduction", so it was great to find a link to this video to get a quick introduction to AWS.

[@academind]

Thank you for your feedback Paul, great to have you on board here and of the Udemy course! We will soon add AWS as a topic on academind.com, so feel free to have a look, maybe you will find some more helpful information :)

[@TheTileMan]

Exceptional video! The best I've seen on this topic, as a matter of fact. Thanks and keep 'em commin'!

[@academind]

That's so great to read, thank you for sharing this. I'll try my best to keep it going :)

[@donmikele07]

You are doing a great job. You have the best words from me fro all your tutorials. I watch them and enjoy. Maybe it is interesting to complete this series of videos with AWS SQS (simple queue service) for Laravel. It is very interesting for apps with a lot of background processes (preparing reports, files to be downloaded, payment schedule,...) that might overload machine (server). This naturally affects performance of the whole app and because of it it is very important to separate background processes that are not interested to users but only to admins.

[@academind]

Thanks for your great feedback and also your suggestion. You're right, that is an interesting topic. I'll keep this series going on a "from time to time" basis and there are a lot of interesting services (including SQS) I'll probably look into.

[@christophercaldwell8139]

I bought your AWS Serverless course and it has helped a lot! A bonus section, or even another course on using SAM to configure AWS would be pretty great as well. You use the console the entire course, which is great for newbies such as myself, but I think it would be really valuable to get your take on CloudFormation, CodePipeline, and the rest.

[@stevehutch]

A very comprehensive overview of AWS.

[@maspoetry1]

Man your knowledge is impressive. Thank you for this intro.

[@vishalsingh8758]

So happy that i subscribed to your channel. Hope to see more tutorials on AWS. Keep up the good work :)

[@academind]

Happy to have you on board Vishal! And I'll upload more AWS tutorials for sure, no worries :)

[@angelleal3005]

How do you update your site once is up ? Say you want to tweak some part of the code so how do you upgrade to the server ?

[@kulvindersingh2738]

Thanks , this helped a lot . But sometimes I receive file not found error on a running page. When I remove cache , history and run the page again by typing the page address manually in browser’s address bar and add www with url it fixes the issue and page is up again . Can anybody suggest anything to about this issue and what steps should it take to resolve it. Thanks

[@jackt6112]

Thanks for your explanation. It's not for me but that in itself is valuable to know.

[@customsoft2010]

Yes well organized and presented tutorial and it's current. Would recommend...

[@academind]

Thank you very much for your great feedback Jack, this honestly means a lot to me!

[@BeingDane]

The content is easy to follow... Great job done. Thanks for sharing content like this...

[@academind]

Thank YOU for your great feedback Dane, happy to read that you like the video!

[@juliuspetre4704]

Thank you so much, almost all the questions that I have in mind about AWS are already answered. Thanks again.

[@academind]

Awesome to hear that Julius, thanks so much!

[@Storiada]

I really liked the video. ALthought, not sure if it's an update from AWS, but it seems the input where you can set your manual npm run start is not there anymore. Do you have maybe any ideea if they have changed something? Thanks. Appreciate.

[@berniestrong8206]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Very helpful!

[@academind]

Always happy to read that the video was helpful, thanks a lot Bernie!

[@sachybullock3855]

June 2023 - Getting an error for the Elastic Beanstalk, "No Environment found for EnvironmentName = 'My-first-app-env'". Since I could not find the "Build a web app" solution, I went to the Elastic Beanstalk service directly, and clicked "Create Application". Please help, am I missing something?

[@hippiejosh63]

Great videos Max, really enjoy and learn a lot from your content. Keep it up!

[@bekuostudio]

Thank you very much i was hitting my head to my desk for hours, your video was very clear.

[@academind]

Thank you Marco, it makes me really happy to read that the video was of help to you :)

[@ryanfavour4]

Well at least I grabbed the basics. Thanks a lot maxi

[@WaldoTheWombat]

I don't understand what made AWS label the server as degraded. Are you saying that since the image you used is Node JS, then AWS automatically expects to find an active Node server? What if I just wanted to make a machine that has a script that prints "Hello World" and I wouldn't even run it, would that result in a degraded status too? .I'm basically having a hard time understanding the correlation between a machine's health status and the apps that it runs.

[@jeev5005]

Great video actually helped a lot, looking forward to watching the rest of the videos on your channel. Thank you!

[@LizbethLeeds]

after first minute you get my thumb up..! I was confused with all the amazon information, you make it clear

[@academind]

Thanks a lot for both your support and your great feedback!

[@alexanders.2917]

Hi, very cool video! At 21:54min you sad you show how to host webpages that use MongoDBs. Where can I find this video? :)

[@mrnobody1321]

In "EC2", Elastic means you can expand the hardware like vCPUs, RAM, Storage...and for sure, we can also shrink them down.

[@Chrono803]

Love your courses and tutorials, Max! Keep up the awesome work!

[@academind]

I'll try my best, thanks for the amazing feedback!

[@AmanDeep-jp4bm]

Max, make a video about stress or even depression in developers. You seem like a very positive guy and I definitely would be interested in hearing from you about your sources of positive energy :)

[@academind]

Interesting topic, thanks for suggestion that. I'll think about that!

[@JohnSmith-xf1zu]

I learned more in this 27 minute video about aws then I did using amazon's aws training service for a few hours.

[@academind]

That's amazing to hear - thanks so much John! :)

[@ReviewPetti]

Very useful and good start for beginners.

[@academind]

Thank you :)

[@shin-ishikiri-no]

What should a person study before AWS to be prepared? Python, Cisco, VMware? I have no idea which path to take as there are too many confusing platforms and certifications. I feel like the only people who get good at this stuff are people with insider connections who were given clear guidance early on.

[@knowledgeindia]

At 13:40, you said it is non-persistent but you are showing EBS which is persistent.

[@dimitriskass1208]

So, If I have 5 instances that are all in "stopped" status and NOT "Terminated", would I be charged after a time period? I thought we are charged only for the "running" time period.

[@myopinions1]

How do i add a good ssl certificate to a wordpress installation on lightsail?

[@FaztTech]

Thanks a lot for this serie. AWeSome ;)

[@marciosantiago473]

Short but gold. Thanks for that!

[@academind]

Happy to read that you like it Marcio, thank you!

[@dmitryk9028]

Very cool that you started that series! Can we hope for Lambda tuts? Serverless? It's looking awesome! Ideal - setup for static site, that can use Lamdba functions for submitting forms, transactional email etc.

[@academind]

You definitely can! :) I got videos for Lambda/ serverless planned, too

[@lawrencegelder4022]

Great introduction to getting started with AWS.

[@academind]

Happy to read that Lawrence, thank you very much!

[@MrMikomi]

Hi, is that 750 hours of wall clock time that the instance is "up" ie from when you click launch until when you click terminate? Or is that elapsed CPU time? I thought you were only supposed to pay for processing cycles or in 100ms chunks of CPU time. I am confused. Thanks.

[@kemety]

I saw your course about serverless app using lambda. I want to know how (and if your course address this) to handle common code, specifically database connection code. Do I have to specify in every lambda function how to connect to a MySQL database? What about common functions, common global variables? how is that shared/used in lambda?

[@jasonma1904]

Extremely useful tutorial. Thanks for all your works.

[@academind]

Thanks a lot Tato!

[@alleaktien-insider]

Love your videos. Please do the same for Google GCP and Microsoft Azure!

[@manguejoe]

Regions are not datacenters and availability zones are not rooms. A region is a geographical location where AWS is present and provide cloud services. An availability zone (AZ for short) is a datacenter in that region. Each region has at least two AZs.

[@sukosuko1]

Great video, get to the point quick and nice to listen to.

[@academind]

That's really great to read, thank you very much for your amazing feedback!

[@kunalks]

i made a angular 4 app and i build the app then I make zip all files and folder inside dist folder. and then upload zip according to your demo. I put the 'ng serve' command in node command input box,but show the 'Degraded'. Where I am doing wrong?

[@LankaNaveen]

I'm a great fan of you Max.

[@academind]

Really awesome to hear that, thanks so much Lanka! :)

[@warronfrench8163]

A few months ago I created an account, based on the adverts that the services are free so long as you stay within limits. I couldn't figure out if I hadn't built any EC2 instances yet, why I had to provide a credit card! Your comment around 5:22, stating that "Yes ,you have to provide a credit card number" sort of negates the fact that you can create EC2 instances. So now I know the "free" "startup" to learn this stuff is simply a misleading gimmick. Glad I didn't get caught up in the hype. :-(

[@draganmijatovic8503]

Thanks Max! Great video to jump into AWS.

[@academind]

Thank you Dragan, really happy to read that the video was helpful!

[@j4nch]

I would love to have some content showing how to use/connect angular to AWS(especially with amplify), and how to use directly the aws-angular packages.

[@otherchannel1199]

Well done, Max. I hope there's an upcoming video (or a number of them) on security. I know that's a vast topic, and the overall maintenance of a linux server is a complex art in its own right, and that you might not want to show the world your exact security settings, but an overview of basic security to get people started would be great. Most of the info out there regarding securing a linux distribution isn't that useful. There might be a video of random apt-get installs with random config options that aren't explained (now type this, now type that...), or an entire Linux Bible that developers unfortunately do not have time to study, but I haven't found any source that gives developers enough security info to safely launch an instance and administer it for basic apps. I think if you did a vid on how to disable root and log in with .pem files, set up UFW, and install just some standard packages and the meaning of the configurations of those packages, it would be really fantastic. Also, it would be very useful to know what aspects of security AWS handles, and the aspects for which a developer is responsible. I'd happily pay for an effective Udemy course offering an in-depth explanation of securing an Ubuntu 16.4 instance.

[@academind]

Security is a very interesting topic but doing tutorials on it is really hard. There's a relatively high danger of people simply using what you show without adjusting it to their exact setup or without questioning it. And I don't want to get into any responsibility issues. I do have it on the agenda but I can't tell how deep I'll dive into it. I have to think about that one

[@otherchannel1199]

That's understandable. Anyway, happy to see this series.

[@thecodeimplementation3417]

Great video! I'm doing the Cloud Essentials course and wanted to see a practical implementation.

[@CSSuccessGamer]

i want to sign up to learn but i dont want to enter my credit card #.

[@appeshreddy]

Good to understand basic concepts , Thank you.

[@academind]

Happy to read that the video helped to make things a bit clearer, thank you for your comment Appesh!

[@ALXG]

Maximilian, you are the man! Subscribed.

[@academind]

Awesome, welcome on board Alexander, thanks so much for your support!

[@mrlive221]

hi great work! , i have 1 question like i want to store data from exteranal api in aws and want show some data in view how it is possible can you help me?

[@mattsosna1929]

Great video, clear instruction. Thanks!

[@abelmurua6980]

Was the udemy course updated? I read comments about being outdated. Just wondering

[@hamisimalekela3855]

Do i need an internet connection to use AWS?

[@chanlee5036]

Watching this video because I've an interview with AWS day after tomorrow. I hope I get the job. I've cleared all the rounds, only personal interview is left. Life's hard

[@tulasitree2676]

Did you make it, Chan?

[@PixelPioneer176]

One of the best books I've read on this subject is "AWS Unleashed: Mastering Amazon Web Services for Software Engineers" by Harrison Quill. Don't miss out on it.

[@jesusarmandomaciasbenitez1517]

Hello , sorry for disturb, but do you have some example with Java and elastickbeanstalk or lambda function ?

[@dxb_coder]

Even though I changed the commend to "npm start" and still refuses to work, I think the problem is that app was built on 6.10 node.js version which is not available on the previous node.js versions list !!!! Any recommendations for a solution to that issue? :(

[@seeking_knowledge89]

Was waiting for this... Thank you Max

[@academind]

Great to have you on board Pratyush!