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Lab 1: Introduction to AWS IAM Version 3.1.2 (spl66) AWS IAM is a tool used to create and centrally manage users and their permissions to access AWS resources.  (Amazon,AWS identity and access management(IAM),2020,  https://aws.amazon.com/iam/  ) (Image Source: MSP360,AWS IAM policy explaind,2020,  https://www.msp360.com/resources/blog/aws-iam-policy/  ) Accessing the AWS Management Console: Click on the start lab to launch your lab: The initializing   process would take a few minutes: : click on  X  to close lab panel after you see the message " Lab status: ready "  Task 1: Explore the Users and Groups: Explore the Users and Groups that have already been created for you in IAM. AWS Management Console   Click  IAM on the service menu: You will find the following IAM users already created for you when you click the  Users: When you click on the User 1,...

Activity: AWS Security Best Practice: image source: LinkedIn learning Scenario You are part of an organization running a simple static website on AWS using Amazon S3 and Route 53 services.    Tasks: Research the service and security requirements for hosting a static website on AWS Identify and discuss what users, groups, roles and policies required to set up with IAM Identify and discuss best practice security recommendations Write a blog about your solution NOTE : Consider security best practice when architecting your project solutions. Research the service and security requirements for hosting a static website on AWS: A static website is usually written in HTML, Amazon S3 can be used to host a static website. To proceed first of all you will require internet access , a your AWS account, a HTML editor and a domain name. In order to host a static website on Amazon S3 first you will have to configure an Amazon S3 bucket as a static website an...

Cost analysis. image source: AWS pricing calculator. In this lab you will: Use the Simple Monthly Calculator to estimate the costs for the scenario. Scenario: Web Application with an Amazon RDS hosted database in the US West (Oregon) Region: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Amazon EC2 provides secure and re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud and is designed to make web scale cloud computing easier for developers allowing to obtain and configure capacity with minimum friction.  (Amazon Web Services, 2020) Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Elastic Load Balancing: Elastic Load Balancing distributes various workloads across various computer resources in order to scale and balance the traffic  that changes from time to time. (Amazon Web Services, 2020) Amazon Route 53: With Amazon Route 53, you are not required to pay anything in advance nor do you have any conditions stating a minimum r...