Technical requirements
For this chapter, if you wish to follow some of the walk-throughs, you will require the following:
- Access to GitHub, S3, and the AWS console (specifically AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, and Amazon S3)
- A computer with the Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Microsoft Edge browser installed and the AWS Command-Line Interface (AWS CLI):
- Regarding the AWS CLI, you can use not only the AWS CLI but also AWS CLI version 2. In this chapter, the AWS CLI (not version 2) is used. You can set up the AWS CLI (and version 2) from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html.
- An AWS account and an accompanying IAM user (or IAM role) with sufficient privileges to complete this chapter’s activities. We recommend using a minimally scoped IAM policy to avoid unnecessary usage and making operational mistakes. You can get the IAM policy for this chapter from the relevant GitHub repository, which is shown at https://github...