Configure Your Local Environment for Communicating with AWS

Lee Robinson: [0:00] Using the link in the description, download and install the AWS CLI. Then, in your terminal, run aws --version to confirm that it was installed correctly. Repeat these steps for the AWS CDK and run cdk --version to confirm that it was installed correctly.

[0:22] Finally, navigate back to your IAM console, and in the terminal run aws configure where you will be prompted to enter in your Access Key Id, your Secret Access Key, as well as defaulting your region name by pressing Enter and the output format. Now, your AWS CLI is configured to use the CDK.