Cloud computing basics

Exercise one for the subject basics of cloud computig. Which are solved with Terraform. Part of the third semester computer science.

There were 2 tasks:

1. Creating an EC2 instance on AWS which run an own web application.
2. Uploading a website to an S3 bucket, which was then made available with CloudFront.

Set Environment variables

Are necessary to communicate with the AWS API.

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=""
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=""
export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=""

Terraform commands

To create the application:

terraform apply -auto-approve

To delete the application:

terraform destroy -auto-approve