Join our beginner-friendly course to learn how to launch and scale your Django app using Amazon Web Services efficiently and effectively.
This beginner course teaches you how to host and scale Django apps using Amazon Web Services. You’ll learn the basics of setting up a server, managing security, and optimizing for performance—all while possibly keeping your costs to zero. It's super straightforward and beginner-friendly!
A beginner course for Django web developers. Learn to launch, optimize & scale your app in Amazon Web Services.
Setting up servers for your business or startup can be a tedious and expensive process, particularly when you're just starting out or switching to a new platform. Amazon Web Services is incredible but you can still feel like you're becoming an accidental System Administrator trying to set everything up correctly. However, with the right instructions, you can get up and running in a few hours--saving you time, money, and a headache.
This course will walk you through Amazon's Web Services, with a focus on setting up Django and leveraging their Free Tier to keep your project free (for low-bandwidth uses for one year). We'll start with the very basics of launching and configuring Django on EC2, discussing different ways to connect to your system while keeping it secure, we'll progress to fine tuning your system with fast and efficient content delivery, and finally we'll dive into all the ways that you can scale your system on this incredibly elastic platform.
A quick note: Amazon Web Services is used by some of the largest websites on the internet, including Netflix and Yelp, as it's extremely scalable, but, it's also a favorite of many entrepreneurs and VC's who know to take advantage of their Free Tier. It's just a great deal.
What this course is:
An easy-to-understand walkthrough on how to host Django using Amazon Web Services which covers: launching a Django-ready server in minutes or optionally launching a "plain" Ubuntu server and configuring Django + dependencies manually (see below for server details), setting up and enhancing security, using FTP & SSH to transfer over project files (a sample project is included) securely, serving static (CSS/JS/Image) files from a Django server and leveraging Cloud Storage (S3 and CloudFront CDN) to make your site faster, setting your project up for production, upgrading your instance for immediate performance increases, adding more instances and load balancing them, separating and vertically scaling your database, automatic scaling with cloud monitoring, deploying automatically with Beanstalk, and more. If you're not happy after taking the course, you will absolutely get your money back.
(Server Configuration Details: Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with Apache, Mod_WSGI, MySQL & Django -- but you can easily switch to Nginx/PostgreSQL, if preferred)
What this course is not:
Amazon has a very wide range (hundreds) of features. If you are looking for help on a particular AWS feature, view the curriculum below to make sure that it's covered. We cover many features but cannot claim to cover everything.
You do not need your own Django project as this course provides a sample for you, however the focus is on hosting and configuring Django not creating projects. If creating Django projects from scratch is an interest, consider downloading my (free) course "Create Your First Django Website - Fast & Free" as supplementary to this course.
Every single question that is raised in the discussion panel is responded to, but this may not be the best resource to diagnose your server issues. Keep in mind that Amazon offers all kinds of support that is available 24x7.
I've enjoyed working with Django and AWS these last couple years -- it's what I use for my business -- and I would now like to help more people take advantage of this great offer and incredibly scalable stack.
If you want to save yourself some time, money, and, possibly a headache, use this guide to speed up the process of understanding this powerful, scalable platform - remember, Amazon hosts everyone - from the busiest sites on the net, to startups on the Free Tier.
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Go from a simple EC2 server on the Free Tier to a load balanced, server cluster that scales automatically depending on the current traffic levels
Understand the different instance types, how much they cost, and how to stay within the Free Tier
Launch an Amazon EC2 server preconfigured with Django
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Its an ok overview, but quite dated
So far, so good.
Getting a little bit dated now but still very useful.
Excellent course, definitely one of the best I have taken, I just hope the course will be updated to most recent versions of tools.
Good explication
I have thoroughly loved this course. Being a Django dev, I was shying away from AWS EC2 as I found it daunting and always leaned towards Heroku as an easy solution. But after this course, there is no turning back to Heroku. It's going to be EC2 all the way for me. Thanks so much Jacob!
It seems that this is the right course I was looking for.
This is a good basic introduction. As of March 2020 the section on auto-scaling seems a little outdated, as the current options in the AWS dashboard don't match what is shown in the course. It also lacks any guidance on how to implement https, which is becoming more and more of a basic requirement for any site. It would be helpful to have some instruction on how to implement that, especially with AWS load balancers.
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Anish T.
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