Technical requirements

To complete this chapter, you will need an AWS account with root access. Everything we will do in this chapter will be unavailable in Free Tier, which means it will cost you a small amount to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require command-line interface (CLI) AWS access. The AWS guide at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html explains the necessary steps, but I will summarize them here:

1. Create an AWS account if you have not already done so.
2. Download the latest version of the AWS CLI from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/welcome-versions.html#welcome-versions-v2.
3. Create an admin user by going to 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.
5. Run the aws configure...