AWS Provisioning
AWS Tutorial: Interacting with AWS
Welcome to the Provisioning AWS lesson. Now that you understand the infrastructure, it's time to learn how developers actually interact with AWS to provision (create) resources.
Why Learn Provisioning Methods?
As a beginner, you will click around a website to build servers. As an advanced cloud engineer, you will write automated code to build those same servers. Understanding the progression of how to interact with the AWS API is the key to mastering DevOps.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn the three primary ways to interact with AWS:
- The AWS Management Console
- The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)
- The AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs)
3 Ways to Interact with AWS
Under the hood, every single action in AWS is an API call. Here are the three ways you can trigger those API calls:
- AWS Management Console: The web-based, graphical user interface (GUI) accessed via your browser. It is incredibly user-friendly and perfect for beginners, manual configurations, or checking billing dashboards.
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI): A unified tool that allows you to control multiple AWS services from the terminal line on your computer. It allows you to write simple bash scripts to automate repetitive infrastructure tasks.
- AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs): SDKs allow you to interact with AWS directly from within your application code. AWS provides SDKs for Python (
Boto3), Java, Node.js, C#, Go, and more.
Exercise
?Which tool would a Python developer use to programmatically upload a file to Amazon S3 directly from their application code?