Cloud Conference - AWS Educate Accounts

BYU Cloud Office
Logging in to AWS Educate
Creating infrastructure in your Educate Account
- Console
- Command Line
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
Enter your login details
Click the My Classrooms link at the top of the page
Click the Go to classroom button alongside your desired classroom - Click Continue
Under the Your AWS Account Status area, click the Account Details button
Show the AWS CLI information - copy this into your ~/.aws/credentials file

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

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

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

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