Django in AWS (EC2): Fundamentals Course

Django in AWS (EC2): Fundamentals Course, A beginner course for Django web developers. Learn to launch, optimize & scale your app in Amazon Web Services.

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What you'll learn

Go from a simple EC2 server on the Free Tier to a load balanced, server cluster that scales automatically depending on the current traffic levels
Understand the different instance types, how much they cost, and how to stay within the Free Tier
Launch an Amazon EC2 server preconfigured with Django
Launch a regular Ubuntu 14.04 server and configure it for Django
Update your Security Group settings with the appropriate amount of access
Connect to your instance via both the command line (SSH) and your browser (Java-SSH)
Setup your your project files on EC2 using FTP
Serve your project files on EC2 (Django will not do this for you in production)
Leverage S3 Cloud Storage & CloudFront CDN to speed up your site
Utilize Amazon's Premium DNS service Route 53 to register and manage your Domain Name
Ways to enhance security on AWS - including Multi-factor authentication, IAM Users, Groups, Policies, and more
Create backup machine images of your project in case of failover and to scale out easily
How to upgrade your servers hardware for an instant performance boost
Separate your web server from your database server with automatic backups and replication using Amazon RDS
Load balance your traffic between several additional EC2 instances
Automatically scale up and down your server cluster depending on the current traffic levels