To get started developing on AWS, you need the following:
1. AWS Account
Create an AWS account to provide you with development environment, to start building your projects on AWS. AWS offers you a free account with tons of resources and services to practice with for the first 12 Months.
2. IAM User with Permissions
One of the AWS best practices, is not use Root User Account for daily routine because it has complete access to all AWS services and resources in the account, instead create an IAM users and grant only permissions needed. Therefore Create a developer account using AWS Identity and Access Management Service(IAM).
Then with the developer (IAM user) account, set relevant permission and roles to AWS services and resources that you will need, while developing on AWS.
3. Install Development Environment
Set up your Integrated development environment. You can use either Cloud9,or any other IDE supported by AWS i.e.MS Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ, MS Visual studio Code(VS Code), Pycharm etc.
Also install programming languages to be used and their Software Development Kits(SDK)s i.e. Boto3 SDK for Python Programming language.
4. Yay! you are good to go
Finally after Creating an AWS account, creating an IAM user and defining their roles, installing and setting up IDEs and SDKS, you are good to get started developing on AWS. Yay!
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