Technical requirements
There are a few things that you will need to set up and configure before we start exploring KDA. If you have already set these up in previous chapters, please skip ahead to the next section.
AWS account setup
You will need to get an AWS account to run the examples included in this chapter. If you do not have an account already, you can go to https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/ to create an account. AWS accounts offer a Free Tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free). The AWS Free Tier allows you to use many AWS services for free within specified usage limits. Some of the service examples in this chapter are outside the AWS Free Tier and incur some service usage charges.
AWS CDK
You will need an AWS Cloud Deployment Kit (CDK) to create cloud application resources required for the setup of the exercises we will perform in this chapter. You can install a CDK by executing the following on your command prompt:
npm install -g aws-cdk
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