Tools and first-week setup

The tools a Amazon Web Services intern uses and how to set up your workspace in week one.

These are the main tools for Amazon Web Services tasks. You do not need all of them on day one; the Level 1 tasks tell you when to install each one.

Set up your workspace

Create a free GitHub account if you do not have one, with a professional username, and set up your LinkedIn profile: every task is submitted with a LinkedIn post.
Create one repository for the internship, for example amazon-web-services-aws-internship, with a README that says who you are and what the repo holds.
Keep one folder per task, named with the task number and title, so mentors find your work quickly.
Commit small changes every day with clear messages. Your daily work report uses these commits as proof.
Never commit passwords, API keys or personal data. Put secrets in a .env file and add it to .gitignore.

Task	What to do
Create a free-tier account safely	Create an AWS free-tier account, enable MFA on the root user, create an IAM admin user and set a billing alarm at Rs 100. Screenshot each step (hide account numbers).
Cloud basics	Explain regions, availability zones, IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and the shared responsibility model in a README in a repo named aws-internship.
IAM users, groups and policies	Create a group with read-only S3 access, add a user to it and prove the user cannot delete objects.
Launch an EC2 instance	Launch a free-tier EC2 Linux instance, connect with SSH and install a web server that shows your name.