AWS-FULL-STACK-WEB-APPLICATION

WHAT IS AWS ?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of services that Amazon provides online. Services like storage, backup, DNS, database, load balancing and maybe the most popular, virtual machine hosting is all provided in one place. The goal of AWS is to provide an economy of scale. Amazon provides data centers and engineer them to provide the kind of services that any web application needs! AWS ranks as one the Top 5 Most Popular Platforms amongst professional developers!

PREREQUISITES

Python3 - We recommend using virtual environments. They will help on the creation of isolated environments so different python versions can run on the same machine. Check more about virtual environments here. (Needs to be installed manually)

Pip - The python package manager. (Needs to be installed manually)

Flask - A simple and flexible Python Web Framework that provides with tools, libraries and technologies to build a web application. (Installed by pip)

AWS Account - To access any web service AWS offers, participants must first create an AWS account at http://aws.amazon.com. Participants can use an existing Amazon.com account login and password when creating the AWS account.

AWS Educate Account - To gain access to $100 in AWS Promotional Credit, students need to enroll into AWS Educate. Be sure to use your school issued email address when you registered for quicker approval.