Hands-on – configuring the AWS Command Line Interface tool and creating an S3 bucket
In Chapter 1, An Introduction to Data Engineering, you created an AWS account and an AWS administrative user, and then ensured you could access your account. As part of the process of creating the administrative user, you took note of the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, both of which are needed for authenticating programmatic access to your account.
In this chapter, we will use those keys to configure the AWS CLI. We will also use the CLI to create an Amazon S3 bucket (a storage container in the Amazon S3 service).
Installing and configuring the AWS CLI
To configure the AWS CLI, you will need an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key for an IAM administrative user.
The following steps will install the AWS CLI and configure it for use in the hands-on sections throughout the remainder of this book:
- Download the appropriate AWS CLI installer for your platform (Mac, Windows...
