AWS — Get Started

Create AWS account

1. Go to aws.amazon.com
2. Click "Create an AWS Account"
3. Enter email and password
4. Add payment method
5. Verify identity
6. Select support plan

Free tier

• 750 hours/month: EC2 t2.micro
• 5 GB storage: S3
• 25 GB: DynamoDB
• 1 million requests: Lambda

Install AWS CLI

# macOS
brew install awscli

# Linux
curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

# Windows
msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

Configure AWS CLI

aws configure

Enter:

• AWS Access Key ID
• AWS Secret Access Key
• Default region (e.g., us-east-1)
• Default output format (json)

Verify setup

aws sts get-caller-identity

Install SDK (Python)

pip install boto3

First API call

import boto3

# Create S3 client
s3 = boto3.client('s3')

# List buckets
response = s3.list_buckets()
for bucket in response['Buckets']:
    print(bucket['Name'])

Security best practices

1. Enable MFA
2. Use IAM users
3. Never share credentials
4. Rotate access keys

Mini Practice

1. Create an AWS account
2. Install and configure CLI
3. Make an API call
4. Enable MFA

Up Next

Continue with Console - AWS Management Console.