Technical requirements
To be able to accomplish the technical tasks in the chapter, you will need to have the following technical prerequisites:
- A working AWS account (you can opt for the free tier, which will cost $0/month for 1 year)
- A Windows EC2 instance set up in the AWS account
- A fundamental understanding of AWS IAM (Roles, Users, Policies, and Permissions)
- Fundamental knowledge of AWS Systems Manager (SSM)
- Basic PowerShell and shell script execution knowledge
- An understanding of AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS)
The code files for this chapter can be downloaded from the Chapter03 folder at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/An-Insider-s-Guide-to-Observability-on-AWS.
