week0.md

Week 0 — Billing and Architecture

Logical Architectual Diagram in Lucid Charts

https://lucid.app/lucidchart/f66a78bf-14fd-40d8-a1fc-e65645e223aa/view?page=0_0&invitationId=inv_c5c78108-6652-4ae0-8b97-3dae65bd2cae#

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Create an Admin User

From Search Bar, search for IAM to make a new Admin user. Insert desired Admin User name. Choosing permission, for the best practice we'll make a new 'admin group', set permission and add new admin user into this group. Make a new group with defined administrator permission. Choose created group to our admin user. Add tag for better audit. Finished. An Admin User has been created.

Use CloudShell

To open AWS Cloudshell, you can click Terminal icon on the left side of notification icon, on the top bar. Welcome to AWS Cloudshell! If you facing "Unable to start the environment. To retry, refresh the browser or restart by selecting Actions, Restart AWS CloudShell." error. Please refer this documentation and change your region.

Generate AWS Credentials

Generate Console Access

To enable Console Access, you can click Enable Console Access in IAM > User > Security credentials tab. Set your preference, choose Enable console access. Download .csv.

Generate AWS CLI Access

To enable AWS CLI, AWS Tools for PowerShell, AWS SDKs, or direct AWS API calls, you can click Enable Console Access in IAM > User > Security credentials tab. Choose Command Line Interface (CLI). Add tag by your preference. Download .csv.

Install AWS CLI

We need to install AWS CLI first. Since I'm using Ubuntu (WSL based), we'll install based on Installing or updating the latest version of the AWS CLI.

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
unzip awscliv2.zip
sudo ./aws/install

Check AWS CLI installation using 'aws --version' command. Configure AWS CLI using 'aws configure' and check running configuration using 'aws configure list'.

Create a Billing Alarm

You can activate Billing Alerts in Billing Preferences, and enable it's alert by clicking Manage Billing Alerts Create alarm. Set metric and condition. Configure actions by adding new email and new SNS topic. Add alert name. Preview. When ypu got status 'Pending confirmation', you need to confirm SNS subcription that has been sent yo your email. After confirmation.

Create a Budget

You can activate Budget in Billing Preferences, then 'try the new budgets feature' Create a Budget Use Zero spend budget template and set budget name. You need to insert email for notification. Bedget has been created.

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