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Passed the AWS CCP Exam today. Took the classes on LinkedIn Learning starting on 12/05/22 and found AWSHQ on 12/07/22, went through all the practice exams and kept getting a steady 75%-85% pass rate. Scheduled the exam to give myself a deadline and kept taking the practice exams. Overall...

I m not sure what you mean by the safest way, but the principal of least privilege should always be used when working with access rights. Only give people/things access they need to do the job they are responsible for.

The number one thing you need to do when creating an AWS account is to add MFA. I prefer hardware keys wherever possible. My hardware token of choice is Yubikey - which is fully supported by AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/use-yubikey-security-key-sign-into-aws-management-console/

It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Just like a car mechanic, there are different tools (AWS services), depending on what you are thing to accomplish. Can you share more on what you are trying to accomplish, and we can help you out?

HI Martha! Welcome to AWSHQ! Given your background, I would love to pick your brain a little on how we can best market this site? There are no 'traditional' forums out there for AWS - so I would like to know, what would be the best way to spread the word?

Welcome to the AWSHQ! Is there much demand for AWS Services in Nepal? What is the closest AWS Region to you, and how is the latency, connectivity, etc.

It really depends on your use case. For archival data (family pictures, etc), then you want the cheapest storage possible (Glacier). However, if you need to store "hot" data that you cannot afford to lose, then you would want AWS S3 standard, which has %99.99999999 durability, and will never...

With the AWS free tier, they have changed things over the last couple of years. To me, it is a much more comprehensive offering with more services included. There is also the 'protection' of not being able to go outside of the boundaries of the free tier, and by accident, jacking up crazy...

I think for the smaller use cases out there, you might want to look at something like AWS Lightsail (https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/). This is more in line with a traditional VPS offering, as opposed to a true cloud offering. It really comes down to a number of things when thinking about...

Smart move. I really don't think there is a usecase for small sites on AWS, unless you want to take advantage of something on the free tier (cloudfront, s3, etc), in order to speed up your site. Yup - you really have to be careful here. I tell every new AWS customer, that the first order of...

For me the free tier number one use case is either EC2 or S3. S3 to test the various management tooling (moving from standard to Infrequent access for example. S3, truly is the really hidden gem of the entire AWS stack if you ask me.

Think of AWS as WAY more than a hosting platform. It is a true enterprise-grade Infrastructure as a Service offering. So, to answer your questions below. 1. Real world difference between cPanel hosting and AWS - night and day. With cPanel hosting, you are usually on a single physical...

The cost is one of those things that you need to be very careful with, especially when learning, as some of the service s(looking at you AWS Bedrock), can be crazy expensive. I know that AWS has recently launched a free tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free/) that is a lot more protective (i.e you...

Considering AWS powers well over 1/2 the sites we interact with daily, learning is a GREAT idea!

I ran a battlefield forum that grossly out-sized what I could get from shared hosting, and I had no experience with the dedicated server market, so I went with what I knew. I ran a XenForo forum with EC2 as the compute engine, RDS as the dedicated DB layer, and all images, attachments etc...