Technical requirements

For this chapter and the remainder of this book, you'll need to install Python. Specifically, you'll need a Python interpreter that's version 3.6.1 or higher. This book makes use of the language constructs provided by Python 3, which means it is incompatible with Python 2.x. Additionally, you'll need to install the boto3 package. You can install the newest version of boto3 using python3 -m pip install boto3. At the time of writing, the current version is version 1.17.91.

You will also need a code editor. Popular choices include Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Notepad++. Additionally, you'll need an AWS account. You can sign up for a free tier account that will give you some limited computing resources to try out the scripts in this chapter.

A basic understanding of the different concepts and services, such as EC2, is advisable when following the recipes in this chapter. You may gather such an overview of key concepts by visiting...