Learning the basics of AWS

AWS is a cloud service that lets us run our web applications on the cloud. AWS has numerous services that can be used to run our applications on the web and scale them as traffic grows. In this section, we will cover the basics of all the AWS services that we will be using to deploy our Django application to production.

Creating an account in AWS

First, we must create a new account with AWS. Here are the simple steps we can follow to create an account with AWS:

1. Go to https://aws.amazon.com and go to the Sign up page.
2. Fill out the form, as shown in Figure 13.1:

Figure 13.1: AWS sign up page

3. Go to your mailbox to get the six-digit OTP from AWS to enter on the next screen.
4. Fill in all the fields of the signup form regarding contact information and business information, as shown in Figure 13.2:

Figure 13.2: AWS sign up contact information

5. Next, we have the...