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* == AWS vs AWS Educate vs AWS Academy== One of the goals of the course for you is to learn how to work with cloud service providers, AWS being arguably the most popular one. But AWS was never free. In order to encourage people to learn AWS skills: AWS provides several incentives for beginners and learners. Notable for our purposes are: * '''AWS'''. Available to nearly anyone who has a credit card. All the services are available and you pay for what you use. Because of the potential for huge bills you might get from AWS - we're not using it directly.* The '''AWS free tier'''. It keeps changing but often it still requires a credit card to sign up and though you get some initial free credits: you risk adding up charges you simply didn't expect. We're not going to use it.* '''AWS Educate'''. This was Amazon's first attempt at building an infrastructure specifically for students. It has been deprecated in favour of AWS Academy, but you may find references to it as you look for answers to your questions. We have never used it for OPS345.* '''AWS Academy'''. This is what we're going to be using. You should automatically get an email from notifications@instructure.com once the course begins. That has will have a link for yu you'll need to click follow to create an your free AWS Academy account and join enroll in the Learner Lab for this course. That comes with a 100$ credit which will be plenty enough for OPS345 unless you're reckless with your usage. That will give you access to most AWS services, though it has some severe limitations. For example you can only create VMs with Amazon Linux, and you can't see what you spent your credits on. But it's plenty good enough for this course . We're only getting an overview of AWS, there is no time in one semester to do both an introduction and a deep dive. AWS Academyalso offers entire couses (e.g.AWS Academy Cloud Foundations), which serve as preparation for AWS certification exams. We are not following that curriculum because it wouldn't fit at all with your program at Seneca, and regardless it has questionable value.