A step-by-step AWS lab with lots screenshots: create and delete an IAM user, host a site on S3, launch an EC2 server and run Jenkins on it, including the two errors I hit and how I fixed them.

Almost every AWS learning path starts with the same three moves: decide who is allowed to do what, store a file somewhere, and start a server. That is IAM , S3 and EC2 , and nearly everything else on AWS sits on top of those three.

So I did all three for real, took a screenshot of every click, hit two errors along the way, fixed them, and then deleted everything at the end of each part so nothing was left running on my bill.

This post is the full walkthrough.…