AWS Part 1: Account Setup & Root Hygiene
Originally published at unifiedpathmedia.com. The short version: Most AWS (Amazon Web Services) tutorials sprint straight to launching an EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instance, a virtual server. That

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Set up AWS the right way: account and root hygiene, IAM, the core services you'll actually use, billing and tagging, EC2 sizing and picking a database. Plain English from 15+ years of AWS work.