Building a Media Sharing Website - Part 1: Media Upload

This lab will demonstrate how to deploy a photo sharing website with a web interface for users to browse and store images. The application, written in Ruby on Rails, will use Amazon S3 for storage, Amazon DynamoDB for the database, and Amazon EC2 to host the web application.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create a new Amazon S3 bucket to hold your media files
• Create a security group to restrict access to the server’s resources
• Launch a new Amazon EC2 instance to run your web server
• Create an Amazon DynamoDB database to hold your data

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
• Comfortable editing scripts using a text editor

Course Outline

• Task 1: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket
• Task 2: Create the Media Database
• Task 3: Create the Web Front-End
• Task 4: Test the Deployment