So far, we’ve been using Ansible as a provisioning tool, but it can do far more than that. In this chapter, we’re going to be taking a look at Ansible’s orchestration capabilities. Specifically, we’ll be interacting with Amazon’s AWS (Amazon Web Services ) platform to create a virtual private cloud and spin up some servers within it.
Creating an AWS Account
Before you can use AWS, you’ll need to head to https://aws.amazon.com/ and create an account by clicking Sign Up in the top-right corner (see Figure 7-1).
