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Use case: AWS Free Tier

Use case: AWS Free Tier - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Use case: AWS Free Tier

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- [Instructor] So, now that we are armed with an AWS account and AWS Free Tier, let's explore a use case for a real project you can create using mostly free resources. Imagine you have to create and host a WordPress website using AWS. You can very quickly spin up an Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 Instance, that comes loaded with WordPress. AWS has a marketplace for preconfigured servers called Amazon Machine Images or AMI. These are basically templates of servers that you can create and immediately get it preconfigured to a certain way. In this case, a company called Bitnami has created a WordPress AMI called WordPress Certified by Bitnami. It is Free Tier eligible and runs on an Ubuntu server. You will be led through the setup process and once you're through, you will have a WordPress website set up and ready to go. EC2s have fairly long URLs through, which could be something like ec2-52-204-122-132.compute-1.amazonaws.com. That's usually not a very attractive way to introduce your…

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