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Today is all about creating an account on AWS and a general overview of AWS Let's begin. If you want to create an account , from the AWS management console click on Create an AWS account it will take you to a sign up page kindly fill in your details and continue till step 5 NB when you complete this process $1 will be deducted from your account😁 don't worry it will be refunded this is just to help identify your identity. After all this you can go back to the management console and log in it will take you to where you to sign in where in you'd fill in as the root user ( make sure to fill in thesame details you used while creating the account) and then sign in. 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿yaaay there you go

Things to Note concerning the general overview of AWS

1. Amongst all the cloud providers that exist AWS is the lead with the greater market share
2. You can build everything on AWs and it is applicable to diverse industries. Companies such as Dropbox, Netflix( which we all love 😁), Airbnb and even NASA all host their services on AWS.
   1. Also AWS is global service meaning it is all around the world where in we have Regions, availability zones, data centers and edge locations. a) Region: It is a cluster of data centers and they are found all over the world eg us-east-1 , us-east-2 and many more b)Availability zones: They are found in regions usually 3 but can go up to 6 maximum eg us-east-1a , us-east-1b and us-east-1c. They are each made up of several data centers. NB: they are usually separated from each other to avoid loss incase of a disaster. c) Edge Locations: used for content deliver to users with low latency possible .

Woupphhhhhh😅 To be continued.......