Technical requirements
You will require an AWS account with root access. Everything we will do in this chapter will be available with the Free Tier, which means you can run all the code examples without spending any money as long as your account has only been opened within the last 12 months. You will also require a command-line interface (CLI) with AWS access. The AWS CLI Configuration Guide, found at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html, explains the steps required, but I will summarize them here:
- Open an AWS account if you have not already done so.
- Download the AWS CLI latest version from here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/welcome-versions.html#welcome-versions-v2.
- Create an access key for your administration user here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/getting-started_create-admin-group.html#getting-started_create-admin-group-cli.
- Run the
aws configure
command to set up a profile for your...