Learn the AWS basics we need for this project

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Goal

• Help the team understand the minimum AWS concepts needed before we try to deploy anything.

Description

• Most of the team is new to AWS, so we should first learn the small set of AWS ideas needed for this project. We do not need to learn everything about AWS. We only need enough to safely deploy our Docker containers on EC2.

Why this matters

• If the team does not understand EC2, security groups, public IPs, and SSH access, deployment will be confusing and error-prone.
• What to learn
• What EC2 is
• What a security group does
• What a public IP and DNS name are
• How SSH access works
• How Docker runs on a server
• What ports need to be open for our apps