Setting up your Accounts
The first steps to take for this course involve running through a few cloud and workstation setup checklists. Going through these checklists will also help you get familiar with what the sample code does and how it’s organized. It's worth taking some time to get set up and oriented now, to improve your learning experience for the rest of the course.
Setting up your AWS Account
If you don't have one already, then you'll need to sign-up for an AWS account. Once you’re signed up, you’ll also need to run through these tasks:
- Secure the Root User Account
- Create an Admin User Account
- Generate Access Keys
- Set up a Billing Alarm (not required but recommended)
A support document to help you with these tasks is available here:
Setting up your GitHub Account
All the sample code for this course is available in public repositories on GitHub. For each of the supported programming languages, this sample code consists of separate repositories for the deployable serverless code, the reusable service component code, and common code for all AWS variants of the ConnectedCar solution.
The code in the deployable serverless repositories depends on compiled libraries for the service components, and these libraries are hosted as packages on GitHub. Although these packages are also marked as public, GitHub requires the use of personal access tokens too read them. As a result, if you don’t already have one, you’ll need to create a GitHub account and generate a token in order to build and deploy the sample code.
A support document covering how to create an account and then generate a personal access token with the required access rights is available here: