The Problem

Now that I’ve decided to learn and use AWS Cloud Development Kit, I’ve got to configure programmatic access. As I stand on the shore, looking out into the broad, deep ocean that is AWS, I’m a bit nervous. IAM has always confused me, even with guardrails. Now I’ve got to figure out how to set this up on my own!

My Approach

I’ve started by creating a basic, free account in AWS. With that in place, it’s time to roll up my sleeves.

After thrashing around for a bit (and asking the universe why AWS has to be so !@#%@#% complicated!?!), I stumbled across this “getting started” guide that made things very simple!

Once through it, I have the following in place:

1. An admin user, separate from my root user.
2. A config file on my machine that allows me to use this account to run aws cli
3. A cloud9 instance! This is AWS’s cloud IDE, looks pretty cool. I created as part of the tutorial, but have no need yet, so I’ll delete it (no idea if it will start costing me money!)

Next up

Now that I’ve got AWS CLI right where I want it, I will turn back to learning the AWS CDK. With that, I hope to setup a stack I can use for the donut shop backend (eg, DynamoDB, Lambda, and API Gateway).