AWS training links

Below are a short list of links to AWS training material that I’ve found extremely useful.

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AWS Training / Learning library home page. Free registration required. Hundreds of modules to learn about the different AWS services. An incredible resource which is amazingly free.	https://www.aws.training/ https://aws.amazon.com/events/awsome-day-2019/
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course. A great way to quickly learn the basics of the core services, through watching a series of structure videos with multiple choice questions at the end of each topic to enforce and consolidate your learning.	https://www.aws.training/learningobject/curriculum?id=27076
Qwiklabs. A a great resource to learn cloud skills.  The courses provide sandbox environments to learn new skills. There’s also free courses to learn to help learn some of the basics of the course services. Qwiklabs covers both AWS and GCP.	https://www.qwiklabs.com/catalog?keywords=&cloud%5B%5D=AWS&format%5B%5D=any&level%5B%5D=any&duration%5B%5D=any&price%5B%5D=free&modality%5B%5D=any&language%5B%5D=any
AWS Monthly webinars. These are a great resource to see what’s new, or gleam in depth insight into a particular service.\ These sessions change frequently as AWS services evolve, so also keep popping back to the page to see what’s new.	https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/events/monthlywebinarseries/ ARCHIVE https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/events/monthlywebinarseries/archive/
AWS Documentation. The trusty default go to when you need to reference something within AWS.	https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html#lang/en_us
AWS Youtube channel	https://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices

AWS FREE TIER - when creating a new account -- does the free-tier time/window start as soon as the account is created, or as soon as a particular service is started?

The 12 Months starts from the account creation

https://aws.amazon.com/free/?all-free-tier.sort-by=item.additionalFields.SortRank&all-free-tier.sort-order=asc

Please see the FAQ - https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/

As well as a link to an article discussing tracking free tier usage.

You are also able to leverage Cloudwatch and creating billing alarms

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/tracking-free-tier-usage.html