The Amazon Web Services world is an entire beast on its own, and I believe some knowledge around it should be useful to all tech related roles, from programmers to DevOps and system administrators. I am recently trying to explore AWS, so I will try to document my process along the way. In this post I have gathered the steps for signing-up with AWS and the first configurations to make to your account before even starting an instance or a service.

About An simple URL shortener RESTful web service API written in Go, using the net/http package for the server, the HttpRouter for the router and Bolt DB for the database. The Stoplight service was used to design and document the REST API. See below for the API Documentation The API service is deployed on Heroku, and you can access it on url-shortener-thanoskoutr.herokuapp.com. Because the Heroku Free plan is no longer available from November 28, 2022, the above link does not work.