You should have access to an AWS account.

The detailed requirement for each chapter can be found in the Technical requirement section of the chapters.

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2. Select the SUPPORT tab.
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There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The public key is installed in the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in the filesystem of the instance."

A block of code is set as follows:

{
 "Tenancy": "default",
 "GroupName": "",
 "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1a"
}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mkdir webApp && cd $_

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "In the EC2 console choose Launch Instance."