Cloud Conference - AWS Educate Accounts

• BYU Cloud Office
• Logging in to AWS Educate
• Creating infrastructure in your Educate Account
  • Console
  • Command Line
    • Python/Boto3
    • AWS CLI
    • Terraform
• Saving money by shutting down EC2 and RDS - calculator.aws
  • On Demand EC2 Pricing
  • MySQL RDS Pricing
• Saving money by deleting infrastructure
• Supported Services
• Limitations - no Cost Explorer, no billing

Enable Command Line Connections to your Educate Account

• Log in to https://www.awseducate.com
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• Enter your login details
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• Click the My Classrooms link at the top of the page
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• Click the Go to classroom button alongside your desired classroom - Click Continue
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• Under the Your AWS Account Status area, click the Account Details button
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• Show the AWS CLI information - copy this into your ~/.aws/credentials file
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Login to the AWS Console of your Educate Account

• Log in to https://www.awseducate.com
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• Enter your login details
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• Click the My Classrooms link at the top of the page
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• Click the Go to classroom button alongside your desired classroom - Click Continue
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• Under the Your AWS Account Status area, click the AWS Console button
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• Ensure the N. Virginia region (US-East-1) is selected in the top right
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Command Line Infrastructure - Linux, Mac, Windows (via WSL)

• If you run MS Windows, follow the instuctions below to install WSL

• Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) language that allows easy, repeatable creation of infrastructure.

• The terraform scripts in this repo create:

  • Linux EC2 Instances in each US-East-1 Subnet
    • Current EC2 Linux pricing t2.micro $0.0116/hour ($1.95/week)
  • A Key Pair for SSH Access
  • MySQL RDS Instances in each US-East-1 Subnet
    • Current RDS MySQL pricing db.t3.micro $0.017/hour ($2.86/week)
  • A Random Password for MySQL Access
  • A Security Group that allows SSH access to the EC2 Instances from Local IP

• Python script to stop/start EC2 and RDS instances via the commandline

Setting Up Windows with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

• Enable WSL
• Install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from the Microsoft Store
  • You will be asked for a Username and Password; this does not need to be the same as your Windows username/password

Install AWS Command Line Tool and Terraform

• Open (WSL) Ubuntu - or your command prompt on Linux/Mac
• Add unzip
  • sudo apt install unzip -y
• Install AWS CLI
  • curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
  • unzip awscliv2.zip
  • sudo ./aws/install
  • aws --version
• Add $HOME/.local/bin to path

vim .bashrc
    if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
        PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
    fi
source .bashrc

• Install Terraform
  • curl "https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.14.6/terraform_0.14.6_linux_amd64.zip" -o "terraform.zip"
  • unzip terraform.zip
  • mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
  • mv terraform ~/.local/bin/terraform
  • terraform --version