Options to interact with AWS
Web Management Console
CLI
SDK
Web Management Console Use (2)
Basic Setup
Testing Services
Command Line Use (2)
Can be used to automate repetitive tasks
Requires access keys
SDK Use (2)
Access for programming language-specific resources
Automation in a custom application
Root user
Initial user created when starting new AWS account
EC2
Cloud based platform for secure and resizable VMs
EC2 use cases (4)
Web application hosting
Batch processing
API server
Windows instance