Setting up and AWS environment for development

In this tutorial, we will set up an AWS account and development environment. This will allow us to interact with our AWS account and programmatically provision any needed resources.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to:

• Configure users for an existing AWS account
• Set up the AWS CLI
• Set up an AWS Visual Studio Code environment

Configure users for an existing AWS account

To create a new AWS account follow the steps described here. This tutorial assumes an AWS account already exists.

Let’s add now a new Admin user.

Navigate to the IAM Identity Center console, and choose Users. Then, select Add user.

Add all the details for the admin user.

Next add the user to the Admin group. If the group doesn’t exist, create one.