Learn how to create your AWS account and configure your development workspace. We'll guide you through the essential steps to get your environment ready, so you can start working with AWS resources and services.
To get started, pick one of the following topics for a step-by-step tutorial to get you up and running in less than 30 minutes, or visit the AWS Developer Center to explore other tutorials.
If you're a beginner looking for a starting point to learn AWS, we recommend that you complete the following six onboarding tasks. These tasks will help you learn how to launch and configure several different AWS services across a broad range of categories.
This tutorial is designed for beginners with no prior experience using Amazon EC2. We'll guide you through the steps for creating—we call it launching —your very first EC2 instance using the EC2 console.
Our downloadable Ramp-Up Guides offer a variety of resources to help build your skills and knowledge of the AWS Cloud. Each guide, features carefully selected digital training, classroom courses, videos, whitepapers, certifications and more to remove the guesswork of learning AWS.
Getting started with AWS Learn the fundamentals and start building on AWS. Find best practices to help you launch your first application and get to know the AWS Management Console.
Watch these hands-on Lightsail tutorials to quickly bring your projects to life and ramp up to AWS infrastructure. To decide if Lightsail or EC2 is for you, take a look at this side-by-side comparison of the cloud solutions.
Use this tutorial to get started with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). You'll learn how to launch and connect to an EC2 instance. An instance is a virtual server in the AWS Cloud. With Amazon EC2, you can set up and configure the operating system and applications that run on your instance.
