Creating an AWS account - Try It Yourself

Creating an AWS Account

📖 Scenario: You want to start using cloud services by creating your own AWS account. This will allow you to access many cloud tools and services for your projects.

🎯 Goal: Create an AWS account by setting up the required information step-by-step.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called account_info with your basic account details.

Add a configuration variable called region to specify your AWS region.

Add a key services_enabled with a list of initial AWS services you want to enable.

Add a final key account_status with the value "Active" to complete the account setup.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Creating an AWS account is the first step to using cloud services for hosting websites, storing data, or running applications.

💼 Career

Understanding how to set up and configure cloud accounts is essential for cloud engineers, developers, and IT professionals.

1

Create the initial AWS account information

Create a dictionary called account_info with these exact entries: 'account_name': 'MyFirstAWSAccount', 'email': '[e-mail]', and 'contact_number': '[phone]'.

AWS

# Create a dictionary called account_info with account_name, email, and contact_number
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces {} to create a dictionary and separate keys and values with colons.

2

Add the AWS region configuration

Add a variable called region and set it to the string 'us-east-1' to specify your AWS region.

AWS

account_info = {
    'account_name': 'MyFirstAWSAccount',
    'email': '[e-mail]',
    'contact_number': '[phone]'
}
# Add a variable called region and set it to 'us-east-1'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the string 'us-east-1' to the variable region.

3

Add initial AWS services to enable

Add a key 'services_enabled' to the account_info dictionary with the list ['EC2', 'S3', 'Lambda'] as its value.

AWS

account_info = {
    'account_name': 'MyFirstAWSAccount',
    'email': '[e-mail]',
    'contact_number': '[phone]'
}
region = 'us-east-1'
# Add 'services_enabled' key with list ['EC2', 'S3', 'Lambda'] to account_info
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the key 'services_enabled' and assign it a list of strings inside the dictionary.

4

Complete the AWS account setup

Add a key 'account_status' with the value 'Active' to the account_info dictionary to mark the account as active.

AWS

account_info = {
    'account_name': 'MyFirstAWSAccount',
    'email': '[e-mail]',
    'contact_number': '[phone]',
    'services_enabled': ['EC2', 'S3', 'Lambda']
}
region = 'us-east-1'
# Add 'account_status' key with value 'Active' to account_info
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Add the key 'account_status' with the string 'Active' inside the dictionary.