From the course: Java: Serverless Applications on AWS

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Setting up development user

Setting up development user

- Before we start diving into installation steps and our first lend application, we need to set up our AWS development user. So go ahead and go to the AWS console console.aws.amazon.com and either sign in or sign up, if you don't have an account. This is going to require entering your credit card details, but don't worry. You can use the free tier for everything we are doing in this course, so not going to need to pay anything. Once you have your root login details, we need to create a development user. It is always a good practice to separate development users from the root user, to make programmatic requests to the AWS. Using the root user gives full access to all your resources for AWS services, including your billing information. And moreover, you cannot reduce permissions associated with your AWS account user access key. You should guard your root user the same way you guard your credit card number in secret. You…

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