Since we will focus on machine learning on AWS it’s very important that the you get started with AWS by creating an account if not done already. Please visit https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start . You will need to provide some credit card details, but you will only get charged after you effectively use the different services. Consider that many of the services have a free tier which you can start using at no cost. Once you sign up, the next step is to create a user on the platform which you will use for programmatic access.
Navigate to https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home and create user:
Once you create the user, grant some permissions (in our example we will grant full access):
You can optionally set tags to better track costs in case you have multiple users, but we won't focus on that on this book. Once you...