Beginner tutorialsΒΆ
This chapter provides hands-on tutorials for absolute beginners with no cloud computing experience. Those beginner tutorials are aimed to be read in-order!
- Quick start guide for new users
- Overview of basic AWS compute and storage services
- Set up AWS Command Line Interface (AWS-CLI)
- Use S3 as major storage
- Use EBS volumes as temporary disk storage
- Use Spot Instances to reduce EC2 cost
- Notes on security groups (EC2 firewall)
- Put everything together: a complete workflow
- General comments on cloud vs local computer
- A reference workflow
- Launch EC2 instance with custom configuration
- Set up your own model configuration
- Tweak run-time configurations as needed
- Get more input data from S3
- Perform long-term simulation
- Analyze output data
- Save your files to S3
- Terminate server, start over whenever needed