Technical requirements

You will require an AWS account with root access; not everything we will do in this chapter may be available in Free Tier, which means it may cost you a small amount to follow the hands-on sections. You will also require AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) access. The AWS guide found at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-configure.html will explain the steps required, but I will summarize these here: 

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.

Create an access key for your admin user by going to the following link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com...