To get the most out of this book

This book primarily requires an AWS account for the hands-on sessions contained in each chapter. For the sample applications, we require Eclipse Java IDE (latest version) and Python 2.7 or 3.6. Maven builds takes care of all other dependencies.

Hardware and OS specifications includes laptop or desktop with an internet connection, and Windows, Linux, or macOS X (preferably the latest versions).

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/LearningAWSSecondEdition_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

public class KMSClient{
    private String keyId = "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:450394462648:key/1cd0e2d5-61e1-4a71-a6b2-b9db825c9fce";
    private AWSCredentials credentials;
    private AWSKMSClient kms;

    public KMSClient(){
        credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials(accessKey, secretKey);
    
    kms = new AWSKMSClient(credentials);
    kms.setEndpoint("kms.us-west-2.amazonaws.com");
 }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mkdir a1electronics

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "From the EC2 navigation pane, click on Instances to view all your EC2 instances."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.