AWS Beginner

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What you'll build

A one-page static site (index.html) hosted in an S3 bucket and served over HTTPS by a CloudFront distribution. By the end you will paste a CloudFront URL like https://d1abc23def4ghi.cloudfront.net into any browser and see your page. The exit artifact is a public URL you can share. Building this is the point of every page in this tier.

The ladder

1. 01 What we'll build — concrete picture of the exit artifact and the route to it.
2. 02 IAM in plain language — why the root account isn't for daily work.
3. 03 Create an admin IAM user — a non-root identity for everything that follows.
4. 04 Configure the AWS CLI — wire the new user's keys into your terminal.
5. 05 S3 in plain language — the vocabulary for buckets, objects, and regions.
6. 06 Create your first S3 bucket — the place your file will live.
7. 07 Write index.html locally — the artifact you'll upload.
8. 08 Upload index.html to S3 — get the file into the bucket via CLI.
9. 09 Make the bucket publicly readable — allow anonymous GETs on the object.
10. 10 CloudFront in plain language — why HTTPS + edge cache matter.
11. 11 Create a CloudFront distribution — point the CDN at your bucket.
12. 12 Wait for deploy — what "Deployed" means and how to watch for it.
13. 13 Verify the public URL — the tier exit artifact.

Start → 01 What we'll build