Technical requirements
First, let's take a quick look at the technical requirements for running the examples in this book.
Setting up the AWS account
You will need to get an Amazon Web Services (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 services' examples in this chapter are outside of the AWS Free Tier and will incur some charges for service usage.
Using a local development environment
You will need a working Python 3.x environment. You can install Python 3.x by downloading and running the installer (https://www.python.org/downloads/) for your environment's operating system. Be careful not to use Python 2.7 as it is no longer maintained.
You can...