link your credit card when creating your account - you can’t create an AWS account without a credit card
You can do anything you want - start remote servers, start ml costs, use file storage services & upload files, etc
Easy to access and navigate, no setup required. Perfect for exploring services & features
Complex, repeated or large-scale setups can be cumbersome
AWS Tools for PowerShell
Use AWS PowerShell if you’re in a Windows environment and want to leverage PowerShell scripting
AWS CLI
Command driven access instead of a GUI
takes some practice & is more advanced
perfect for executing well known, possibly repeated tasks
can simplify complex or repeated large-scale setups (you don’t have to click through some various web pages in the GUI, but just do the exact commands you want)
you can even automate them using scripts
An alternative - CloudShell (in the Management Console)
AWS CloudShell
Browser-based shell built into the AWS management console
scoped per region, same credentials as logged in user
Writing code in various programming languages that also sends commands to AWS behind the scenes to use certain AWS services in a certain way
Programmatic access, infrastructure as code
Perfect for automating tasks
Ex) You can write a script in Python which will start a server, install software(s), start a process, then shut down the server once it’s done. All you have to do is run the script and everything is done manually.
Simplify complex tasks/setups
API calls
All ways listed above ultimately do the same thing - send commands, HTTP requests to an API provided by AWS
Use services via HTTP requests to the APIs to make AWS do something
Request configurations can be challenging (typically don’t use this method)
