Sysadmin:AWS

Notes from a chat between Craig and Dave on AWS, security risk, etc.

• AWS in classroom? AWS for research certainly
• AWS is many things
• Example: using it to extract text from PDF (as part of a larger ecosystem using AWS)
• Good starting point part of any AWS tutorial: make a computer exist and run things on it - see what's covered by student tools, TOS, etc
• Free packages are fairly generous - can experiment and play with a lot
• Documentation is friendly enough for new people, videos can be helpful
• Synergy between AWS and CS266 topical units? Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, etc. - look these up - some are "here's the solution" some are "here's a dev environment" - we should look at it if it's going to be a core utility, see if other things can be done through it
• 2 things at the heart of AWS skills: EC2 - make a computer and run things on it; S3 - storage, a lot of services interact with it