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From this section onwards,

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we will focus on AWS.

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AWS is one of the most

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popular cloud computing platforms in the world.

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According to the Gartner's Infrastructure

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and Platform Services Magic Quadrant

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that compares all the popular cloud platforms,

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AWS was voted as the cloud leader

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for the 10th consecutive year in 2020.

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AWS offers hundreds of services,

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significantly higher than any other cloud provider,

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from infrastructure technologies like compute,

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storage, and databases,

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to emerging technologies, such as

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machine learning and artificial intelligence,

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data lakes and analytics,

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and Internet of Things.

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This makes it faster,

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easier, and more cost effective to deploy applications

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or even migrate existing applications from

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on-premise to the cloud.

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AWS has the most extensive global cloud infrastructure.

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This allows us to deploy services

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in a number of different globally distributed regions

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and within it multiple data centers known as availability zones.

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As of this recording,

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AWS has 77 Availability Zones

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within 24 geographic regions around the world.

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Some of the common regions

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and availability zones are listed here.

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Terraform as an IaC tool is created by HashiCorp,

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which is an active member of the Amazon Partner Network

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and is also currently an Advanced Tier Technology Partner

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As we saw earlier,

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Terraform offers a dedicated AWS provider for the purpose

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of provisioning and managing AWS cloud-based services.

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With HCL,

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users can write configuration files using simple

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human-readable format that can be versioned,

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checked in to source control

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and easily distributed for reusability.

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We will start working with AWS resources from now on.

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Along the way, we will learn more Terraform concepts.

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But first, we will familiarize ourselves with the AWS platform.

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For that, we will first learn how to get started with AWS

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and set up an AWS account.

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This is followed by lectures

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and demos that are intended for beginners

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to learn absolute basics of AWS using the management console.

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We will first start with the IAM service.

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Once we are familiar with the service,

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we will then learn how to deploy it using Terraform.

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Then, we will look at S3 and the DynamoDB service in AWS.

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Just like IAM,

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once we are familiar with these services,

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we will then learn how to deploy them using Terraform.

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The lectures and demos are accompanied by hands-on labs

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that will help you practice and learn

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deploying resources on AWS with Terraform.