Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that helps customers to identify potentially fraudulent online activities such as the creation of fake accounts, and online payment fraud. It leverages machine learning (ML), historical user data, and the years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon to train and build a model to automatically identify these threats. Announced at re:Invent in 2019, it is now generally available You do not need to have machine learning experience to use this service.

If you are interested in learning more about AWS and is willing to get your hands dirty. Head to the other post where I talked about how to register for an account. Before going stright into buidling let’s take a look at the services that you should get started with. In this post, I will list out some of the important services for beginners to try out. ** Most of the services that I listed here are free !

First of all, if you are curious about why s3? read my blog post on Why host your website on s3?

Hosting on AWS As I mentioned in my other post. The best way to learn AWS is to get your hands dirty and start trying out different services. Hosting your own webiste using different services is definitely one of the best way to do this. You do not need Website development knowledge in order to have a nice looking site running. I will show you the way how I put together my websites.

Sign up for an AWS account !! Many of my friends asked me how do I get started with AWS. I often told them the quickest way to learn is to “get your hands dirty”. I often point them to go to AWS to sign up for an AWS account. It will ask you to enter your information and also most importantly to you ! Your credit card info. But don’t worry, in theory you DO NOT have to pay as I will explain why.