This is the fourth episode on the series “Get Certified with Me” where I take you in my journey on getting some AWS certifications.

In this video, we learn together all the important concepts to create a new AWS EC2 and AWS RDS Aurora database. For doing this I am with my colleague Cobus Bernard, that has 9 years working with EC2 in the cloud. He will explain to me all the things that I need to know in order to get started with these foundational services - EC2, RDS, VPCs, and others.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
04:45 - What is AWS EC2?
06:45 - Let’s start creating an EC2 instance
07:25 - What is an AMI?
10:00 - What are the instance types?
13:50 - What is EBS?
15:55 - What are spot instances?
18:55 - Networking in AWS in less than 2 minutes (VPCs)
21:34 - Public vs private subnets
23:20 - IAM roles for your EC2
24:25 - Shutdown behavior of your instance
26:00 - Instance storage - attaching EBS volumes
29:05 - Tagging your instance
30:00 - Security groups
31:45 - SSH for EC2
36:19 - Introduction to RDS
37:00 - Amazon Aurora
46:00 - Let’s try to connect to the DB from the EC2 instance
47:00 - Security groups in RDS
48:45 - Wrapping up

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