Technical requirements

You will require an AWS account with root access; everything we will do in this chapter will be unavailable in free tier, which means it will cost a small amount to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require command-line interface (CLI) AWS access. The AWS guide (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html) will explain the steps required, but I will summarize here, as follows:

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 by going to the following link:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html#getting-started_create-admin-group-cli

4. Create an access key for your administration user by visiting this link:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_credentials_access...