Technical requirements

You will require an AWS account with root access; not everything we will do in this chapter will be available in the Free Tier, which means you may incur a small cost to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require AWS command-line interface (CLI) access. This AWS guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html) explains the steps required, but I will summarize them here: 

1. Open an AWS account, if you have not already done so. 
2. Download the AWS CLI latest version from here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/welcome-versions.html#welcome-versions-v2.
3. Create an admin user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access-keys.html 
4. Create an access key for your administration user: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html#getting-started_create-admin-group-cli.
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