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AWS Housekeeping

Account Setup, Support

Chandra Lingam
Cloud Wave LLC

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Hands-on Experience

“Gain free, hands-on experience with the AWS platform,


products, and services.”

https://aws.amazon.com

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Three Types of Offers

• Always Free
• 12 months free and
• Trials

https://aws.amazon.com/free
https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/

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Billing

You are billed standard pay-as-you-go rates when -


• Usage exceeds free tier limits or
• Term expires

AWS requires a Credit or Debit card to sign-up for an


account

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Billing

Billing Alerts

Dashboard
• Free-Tier usage
• Monthly Charge Summary
• Itemized charges
• Past Bills and Usage

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Free Support Center

• Account Issues
• Billing Enquires
• Service Limit Changes

• Technical Support – Part of paid plans

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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_service_limits.html
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sagemaker.html

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Billing Alert - Best Practices

• Enable billing access to authorized users in your


account
• Configure Free Tier Alerts
• Enable billing data collection for CloudWatch monitoring
• Configure Billing Alarms with CloudWatch
• Configure AWS Budget

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User Accounts
Account/User Purpose
Root Account Responsible for paying bills. Sign-in at
(Highest Privilege) https://aws.amazon.com/
Enable MFA
my_admin IAM User with administrative access

Sign-in Link
https://<AccountId>.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
https://<Alias>.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
ml_user Administrative user – Maintained for course backward
compatibility
ml_user_predict Limited privilege – Read only access to SageMaker, Invoke
Prediction, S3 Read only access

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MFA Setup

Recommended for root account

Login credentials + one-time passwords


• Google Authenticator App or similar

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AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Install AWS CLI in your laptop


• Used later for demonstrating invocation of prediction
service from outside of AWS
• Configure CLI with ml_user_predict (region: us-east-1)
aws configure --profile ml_user_predict
• Verify Access – List S3 Buckets in your account
aws s3 ls --profile ml_user_predict

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Summary
Account Setup

Types of free offers

Billing Dashboard and Alerts

Support

IAM Users
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Chandra Lingam

50,000+ Students

Up-to-date Content

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