Onboarding to AWS

If you're a beginner looking for a starting point to learn AWS, we recommend you complete the following onboarding tasks in order from task 1 to task 12. These tasks will help you learn how to launch and configure several different AWS services across a broad range of categories.

Task 1

Set up your account

Task 2

Configure access

Task 3

Organize your resources

Task 4

Set up cost monitoring

Task 5

Secure your resources

Task 6

Launch compute resources

Task 7

Create storage resources

Task 8

Create database resources

Task 9

Deploy an application

Task 10

Back up your data

Task 11

Set up monitoring

Task 12

Optimize performance

Additional resources

Learn more about the AWS Free Tier

AWS Free Tier

Get familiar with the core concepts of cloud computing

AWS Cloud Essentials

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AWS Educate

Learn about the shared responsibility model

Shared Responsibility Model

Choose the AWS services that fit your use case

Decision Guides

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