From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts

Exploring the AWS dashboard - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Cert Prep: 1 Cloud Concepts

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Exploring the AWS dashboard

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- [Instructor] When you first log in to the AWS Management Console, you'll immediately notice that there's a lot going on. No worries. Most of the time, we only work with one or two of the resources on this dashboard. First off, let's take look at the right top corner of the browser. Here, you'll see your user name you chose for yourself when you signed up for an account. When you click on your user name, you can find out information and have a quick way of accessing your security credentials. The billing portion is important as you start exploring different services, as some of them will cost money, even during the free tier. Let's move on to the link near the user name labeled Support. Here, you can explore different ways of finding documentation and support resources for your issues or questions. You can create tickets in the support center or ask peers in the forum. You can also find documentation and tutorials on how to troubleshoot or create certain functions in the documentations and trainings offered by AWS for free. The Services link at the top left corner of the browser takes you to the list of all the services AWS offers. This list expands as new services are announced, and just in October of 2018, AWS added new categories, like Blockchain and Satellite. Some of the most popular categories of services are Storage, Commute, and Database. You can click on any of them and they will provide you information and introduction to the services, as well as resources you could check out to learn more about them. Back on the main dashboard, there are resources to learn about various services and what they can do for you, such as the Build a solution and Learn to build section. You can also go to the Explore AWS column to the right and see what AWS things you should check out now. There are many parts to the AWS Management Console dashboard, but we've gone over many of the main resources available for you to begin your dive in to AWS. A big portion of learning a new system or technology is knowing where to look for answers. And the support resources available on the dashboard can answer many of your potential questions and issues. Go ahead and take a little while to explore the dashboard on your own.

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