Amazon Web Services Website Hosting Fundamentals: Difference between revisions

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Topics related to setting up and managing a static website hosted by Amazon Web Services.

The first year is free for many services that would allow you to become familiar with using AWS.

TODO: Confirm that stopping EC2 and RDS instances prevents being charged for them.

If turning off instances prevents being charged for usage of those services, then by all means, turn them off when not actively in use!!!

EC2 - virtual application server; service for web applications
RDS - Amazon Relational Database Service supports database servers
IAM
- manages accounts used to access the application server via ssh
- manages roles defining credentials for software running on EC2 instances^[1] ^[2]

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 Topics related to setting up and managing a static website hosted by Amazon Web Services.
+== Costs ==
+The first year is free for many services that would allow you to become familiar with using AWS.
+'''TODO:''' Confirm that stopping EC2 and RDS instances prevents being charged for them.
+If turning off instances prevents being charged for usage of those services, then by all means, turn them off when not actively in use!!!
 == AWS services ==