1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,620 ‫So welcome to the AWS Console Home. 2 00:00:02,620 --> 00:00:04,820 ‫And in this page, you can do a lot of things. 3 00:00:04,820 --> 00:00:06,540 ‫So first of all, let's have a look 4 00:00:06,540 --> 00:00:08,590 ‫at the top right corner of your screen, 5 00:00:08,590 --> 00:00:10,840 ‫right now, this is what's called the regions selector, 6 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:12,930 ‫and right now I am in Northern Virginia, 7 00:00:12,930 --> 00:00:14,210 ‫US east one. 8 00:00:14,210 --> 00:00:15,660 ‫But it is advised for this course to 9 00:00:15,660 --> 00:00:18,910 ‫choose a region that is geographically close to you. 10 00:00:18,910 --> 00:00:21,850 ‫So because I'm in Europe, I'm actually close to Ireland. 11 00:00:21,850 --> 00:00:24,020 ‫So I can choose EU west one. 12 00:00:24,020 --> 00:00:25,987 ‫But if you are in other regions of the world, for example 13 00:00:25,987 --> 00:00:28,630 ‫if you're in Africa and you're close to Capetown 14 00:00:28,630 --> 00:00:29,800 ‫then choose this. 15 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:31,492 ‫Of course you don't have to physically be 16 00:00:31,492 --> 00:00:33,551 ‫in that region to use that region, okay? 17 00:00:33,551 --> 00:00:34,630 ‫You can for example 18 00:00:34,630 --> 00:00:36,750 ‫choose whatever region makes sense for you. 19 00:00:36,750 --> 00:00:38,660 ‫So choose whatever is closest 20 00:00:38,660 --> 00:00:41,840 ‫and this will give you the lowest amount of latency. 21 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:43,580 ‫Next in the console console, you will see a list 22 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:45,260 ‫of recently visited services 23 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:46,490 ‫and it should be empty for you. 24 00:00:46,490 --> 00:00:47,340 ‫And I just tried that one 25 00:00:47,340 --> 00:00:49,960 ‫so it's showing one right here for me. 26 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,530 ‫On the bottom you get some information about AWS. 27 00:00:52,530 --> 00:00:54,990 ‫You get the health issues, if need be 28 00:00:54,990 --> 00:00:57,370 ‫and cost and usage info for your accounts 29 00:00:57,370 --> 00:01:00,600 ‫as well as tutorials to build a solution and so on. 30 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,590 ‫So this webpage is actually changing a lot over timeless 31 00:01:03,590 --> 00:01:05,480 ‫changed a lot for the past two years. 32 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,170 ‫And so it may not look exactly the same as you 33 00:01:08,170 --> 00:01:10,340 ‫and in case it looks very, very, very different. 34 00:01:10,340 --> 00:01:13,010 ‫I will rerecord this lecture. 35 00:01:13,010 --> 00:01:14,900 ‫Okay, so once we have this 36 00:01:14,900 --> 00:01:17,340 ‫we need to look at services of AWS. 37 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:18,690 ‫And for this two options, 38 00:01:18,690 --> 00:01:22,150 ‫the first one is to go on the top left click on services 39 00:01:22,150 --> 00:01:24,200 ‫and you can either look at services 40 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,530 ‫by alphabetical order, as you can see 41 00:01:26,530 --> 00:01:29,450 ‫there are a lot of services on AWS, 42 00:01:29,450 --> 00:01:31,790 ‫or by category for example, for compute 43 00:01:31,790 --> 00:01:34,070 ‫you will have all these services and so on. 44 00:01:34,070 --> 00:01:35,240 ‫But don't worry over time, 45 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,110 ‫we will learn these services 46 00:01:37,110 --> 00:01:38,840 ‫and we don't have to navigate that page. 47 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,130 ‫Another thing I really like is the search bar. 48 00:01:42,130 --> 00:01:46,210 ‫So you can actually type a service for example, route 53 49 00:01:46,210 --> 00:01:47,830 ‫and then it gives you search results. 50 00:01:47,830 --> 00:01:52,560 ‫So it gives you four services that match this query, okay? 51 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:53,930 ‫And then within these services, 52 00:01:53,930 --> 00:01:55,710 ‫we can also have a look at features 53 00:01:55,710 --> 00:01:57,120 ‫and 13 features match them. 54 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,070 ‫So we can directly jump into the domain names 55 00:02:00,070 --> 00:02:03,750 ‫of the route 53 service and it's a good thing. 56 00:02:03,750 --> 00:02:05,970 ‫We can also look at blogs, knowledge articles 57 00:02:05,970 --> 00:02:08,020 ‫documentations and so on. 58 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:08,853 ‫So this is quite cool. 59 00:02:08,853 --> 00:02:13,320 ‫Let's go into route 53 now to have a look at this console. 60 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:14,680 ‫So this one is very special because 61 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,140 ‫on the top right hand side, it says global. 62 00:02:17,140 --> 00:02:18,810 ‫That means that this console 63 00:02:18,810 --> 00:02:21,110 ‫does not require a region selection. 64 00:02:21,110 --> 00:02:23,310 ‫And that is more of the exception than the rule, 65 00:02:23,310 --> 00:02:25,680 ‫but some services in AWS are where 66 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:28,650 ‫it's called global services and no matter where you are 67 00:02:28,650 --> 00:02:31,010 ‫you're going to get the same view. 68 00:02:31,010 --> 00:02:33,940 ‫But if you switch services and you go, for example 69 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:35,573 ‫to the EC two service, 70 00:02:37,540 --> 00:02:39,170 ‫this time on the top right hand side, 71 00:02:39,170 --> 00:02:40,590 ‫as you can see it says Ireland 72 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:42,950 ‫because I chose the Ireland region. 73 00:02:42,950 --> 00:02:46,100 ‫And so based if I run this console in Ireland 74 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:49,130 ‫or say in another region, for example, in Canada, 75 00:02:49,130 --> 00:02:50,780 ‫well my view is going to be different 76 00:02:50,780 --> 00:02:52,850 ‫in terms of the resources that I will see. 77 00:02:52,850 --> 00:02:54,820 ‫So that's why it's important for you to remain 78 00:02:54,820 --> 00:02:57,700 ‫within the same region for the entire duration 79 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,440 ‫of this tutorial and this course. 80 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:01,690 ‫The other thing you can look at 81 00:03:01,690 --> 00:03:04,360 ‫is called the AWS global infrastructure 82 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:05,980 ‫that you can find on Google. 83 00:03:05,980 --> 00:03:06,910 ‫And this gives you a lot 84 00:03:06,910 --> 00:03:09,480 ‫of information around your services. 85 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:11,700 ‫And one thing that is very important to look at 86 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:14,320 ‫is the AWS regional services. 87 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,757 ‫And it gives you the services list by region. 88 00:03:17,757 --> 00:03:19,550 ‫And so this is table, 89 00:03:19,550 --> 00:03:22,010 ‫and so for example, if in the course, 90 00:03:22,010 --> 00:03:24,340 ‫I talk about a service and do a hands on, 91 00:03:24,340 --> 00:03:26,560 ‫but it doesn't seem to be in your region, 92 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,610 ‫you can check here and find the availability of services. 93 00:03:30,610 --> 00:03:32,030 ‫So for example, we can check a look, 94 00:03:32,030 --> 00:03:33,140 ‫have a look for Cape town 95 00:03:33,140 --> 00:03:36,280 ‫and see the services that are available in this region. 96 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:37,800 ‫And if you don't see a service 97 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,750 ‫maybe you need to switch a region 98 00:03:39,750 --> 00:03:41,530 ‫in of course the console, 99 00:03:41,530 --> 00:03:42,740 ‫to have access to it 100 00:03:42,740 --> 00:03:46,913 ‫because not all the services from AWS are in every region. 101 00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:49,490 ‫So that's it for this lecture, 102 00:03:49,490 --> 00:03:50,430 ‫I hope you liked it 103 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:52,380 ‫and I will see you in the next lecture.