Amazon Web Services Kickstart Part 1
Created: 24 March 2022 Modified:We are looking to get started with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Being complete newbies finding a place to start can be daunting. Never fear you can get started in a few easy steps. We will be setting up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) and installing some command line tools. In some instance corporate intranets or Viratual Private Networks (VPN) may interfere with some functionality of the command line tools. Be aware that there are also plugins for Eclipse and Intellij. At the time of this writing the Eclipse plugins appear somewhat neglected. The last update was several months ago and some irritating bugs are more than two years old. This blog assumes you are running Windows 10.
- Setup AWS Free Account
- Got AWS Free Tier
- Create an account while ensuring that you record all passwords, keys and secret keys.
- Be really sure you recorded all passwords, keys and secret keys.
- Save this information someplace safe.
- Install AWS CLI (command line interface)
- Go to AWS CLI Install
- Once it is installed you will be able to run it from PowerShell and the Window command prompt (CMD).
- Install AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) CLI
- Go to AWS SAM CLI Install
- Once it is installed you will be able to run it from Powershell and Windows’ command prompt (CMD).
- Setup AWS IAM Administrator Account.
- Go to Creating an IAM Administrator Account
- On Step 1 select both Access Key and Custom Password check boxes.
- On Step 5 of the Add User screen be sure and download the user information as a Comma Seperated Values (CSV) file. At the very least you want to record the Key, Secret Key and the user number.
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Add User Step 5
- Install your favorite IDE such as Eclipse or Netbeans. I prefer Netbeans and you can see how I Setup Netbeans.
This provides us the base tools we need to get started with AWS Development. Next we will Create our first Lambda.
tags: aws - amazon web services - start - kickstart