Practical Internet of Things with JavaScript

Setting up AWS credentials

Before we get started with development, we need to set up our local machine with the AWS CLI and AWS credentials.

First, we need to install the AWS CLI. Head over to https://aws.amazon.com/cli and follow the instructions on the page. To test the installation from the command prompt, run:

aws --version

You should see something like:

aws-cli/1.7.38 Python/2.7.9 Darwin/16.1.0

Once the setup is complete we need to configure the AWS credentials, so that as long as we are using this machine, we need not enter any credentials within the code.

Run the following:

aws configure

You should be presented with four questions; fill them with the appropriate information:

If you are facing issues when configuring AWS credentials, ...