AWS Cloud Sandbox

The AWS Cloud Sandbox is meant to provide a real, open AWS environment for you to learn by doing and cloud along with ACG courses. We allow a variety of tools and services within AWS, so you have as many choices as possible when working through your training. Follow along with some labs, practice certain areas or just explore!

Available Services*

*Limited to US-EAST-1 (N. Virginia) or US-WEST-2 (Oregon)

If the feature is not in this list, it is not offered on the AWS Cloud Sandbox at this time. 

Offered Services Limitations

We try to minimize the limitations of our Sandboxes to provide the most comprehensive training opportunity possible. Unfortunately, there are some limits to what we can provide. Refer to the list below for specific limits we enforce on our AWS Sandbox. You will be alerted when you do not have access.

All Services

No Purchasing or Billing Permissions

Cannot modify Account settings

Organizations

Lightsail 

 S3 Bucket Limits

Can only be launched in US-EAST-1 and US-WEST-2. This is to maximize number of services available to students.

EC2 Limits

ONLY these Instance Types are allowed:

t2.micro to t2.medium

t3.micro to t3.medium

Max Volume Size of 50GB

Max Volume IOPS of 150

No Elastic GPU

EMR Limits

ONLY m4.large instance type

IAM Limits

Cannot modify cloud_user or admin role

Cannot use or set up SSO

Additional checks enforced via Abuse Checks (bottom of page)

RDS Limits

ONLY these Instance types are allowed:

     db.t2.micro to db.t2.medium

     db.t3.micro to db.t3.medium

Cannot use Provisioned IOPS

Max Storage size of 50GB

Redshift

ONLY dc1.large or dc2.large Instance types

Max Cluster Node count of 3

Cloud Playground Abuse

Cloud Playground is for educational purposes. We actively monitor Cloud Playground for abusive, prohibited, or otherwise un-awesome behavior. We do not provide the specifics of how or what we look for to prevent workarounds. The purpose of this abuse detection is to ensure compliance with our Terms of Use agreed upon at sign up.  

A few examples of abuse are listed below. This list is not comprehensive, so if you have any questions on your activity we invite you to contact our support team prior to starting the activity. 

• Incorrect instance type
• Ten or more instances created at a time
• Ten or more vCPU across all instances
• Attempting to use resources for Bitcoin mining
• Excessive network traffic
• DDoS or port scanning external hosts
• Keep ECS tasks to a minimum (5 max)

Have fun, learn, but also be respectful please.