Week 1 Worklog

Week 1 Objectives:

• Get familiar with the working environment and team members.
• Understand basic AWS concepts such as IAM, Billing, CLI, and VPC.
• Practice environment configuration and deploy basic AWS resources.

Tasks to be carried out this week:

Week 1 Achievements:

• Got familiar with the working environment, communication processes, and team collaboration.

• Understood how to manage costs on AWS through:

  • Creating and monitoring Budgets in Billing and Cost Management.

• Grasped basic IAM knowledge:

  • Differentiated between IAM Users and Groups.
  • Understood the role of Access Keys and Secret Keys.
  • Learned how to create and securely manage credentials.

• Installed and configured AWS CLI:

  • Set up Access Key and Secret Key.
  • Configured the default Region.
  • Used basic commands to interact with AWS.

• Practiced and reinforced knowledge through small task modules:

  • Completed several tasks for credit-incentivized accounts.

• Understood basic VPC concepts:

  • Subnet (Public/Private).
  • NAT Gateway.
  • Route Table and routing.

• Got acquainted with Elastic Load Balancing:

  • Differentiated between types of Load Balancers (Network Load Balancer, …).

• Practiced deploying a basic networking system:

  • Created a complete VPC with 2 public subnets and 2 private subnets.
  • Configured Security Group.
  • Set up Route Table and mapped with EC2 instances.

• Learned theoretical and practical concepts of secure SSH connection:

  • Understood the mechanism of Key Pairs (public and private keys).
  • Learned how to use an SSH client to connect directly to an EC2 instance.
  • Differentiated and understood other secure access methods such as using a Bastion Host or AWS Systems Manager Session Manager.