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AWS with S3

52-minute Development Tools Course

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About this Course

Whether you're building a major web site, backing up vacation photos, or sharing large files with friends, Amazon's Simple Storage Service, S3, will come in handy. In this course, you'll learn the basics of setting up S3, creating buckets, and controlling file permissions.

What you'll learn

  • Cloud Computing
  • Amazon AWS Plans
  • S3

AWS and "The Cloud"

So you’ve heard about AWS and “the cloud”, but you don’t know what they are. Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this stage, you’ll learn what “the cloud” is, why it’s so useful, and how you can use it with AWS.

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S3 Storage Service

S3 is a storage service: you put things in, and pull them out again. It's one of the simplest parts of AWS, so it's a great place to get started. In this stage, we’ll roll up our sleeves, make an account with AWS, and use S3 to share files with the world.

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Teacher

  • David Baumgold

    David “DB” Baumgold is a freelance web developer and technical trainer in the Boston area. He has a passion for education, accessibility, and clean, readable code. He’s contributed to many different open source projects (including Open edX, Flask, and Lektor), spoken at several tech conferences (including OSCON, PyCon, and PyGotham), and thinks that community is more important than code. He also thinks that computers are fun, even though they’re often frustrating as well. You can check out his website for more information, and maybe even hire him; he’s pretty good at what he does.

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