Technical requirements

You will require an AWS account with root access; everything we will do in this chapter will be available as Free Tier, which means you can run all the example code without spending any money as long as your account has only been opened within the last 12 months. You will also require AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) access. The AWS CLI Configuration Guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html) will explain 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 (AWS CLI version 2) from the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html.
3. 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.
4. Run the aws configure command to set up a profile for your user.
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