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Installations and Credential Management

Installations and Credential Management

Let's take a look at installation instructions and credential management for this course.

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Creating an AWS account

Because Amazon frequently makes changes to these pages, we’re just going to walk through the general process of what you need to do.

  1. Head over to the AWS site

  2. Sign up for an account

  3. Fill in your details

Installing the AWS CLI

In order to use AWS CLI for operations with services on AWS, AWS CLI must be installed on your system.

Please use the AWS CLI official documentation link for installing AWS CLI on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Configuring the AWS CLI

After installing the AWS CLI, you need to configure it so it can communicate with services on your AWS account.

  1. Open the terminal on your device and run the following command:
aws configure
  1. Enter the AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Access Key, Default region name, and Default output format in the prompt:
AWS Access Key ID [None]: your_acces_key
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: your_secret_accesskey
Default region name [None]: aws_region 
Default output format [None]: json

Here is the AWS CLI command format:

aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [parameters]

Setting up and managing AWS credentials for your deployments

There’s an excellent ...