preparation.md

Step 1

• Update Brew: brew update
• Install Node & NPM: brew install node
• Globally install CDK : npm i -g aws-cdk
• Check your installed CDK version: cdk --version. Version should be 1.36.1 (at time of writing)
• In case of any error run npx npm-check-updates -u to update your packages

Step 2

• Create AWS account
• Install AWS CLI

Step 3

• Check if AWS credentials file is available (and correct): nano ~/.aws/credentials
• Add a profile (if not set). A profile looks like:

[dev]
aws_access_key_id=your-aws-access-key
aws_secret_access_key=your-aws-secret-access-key
region=eu-west-1

The key AWS access key and AWS secret access key can be found/set under IAM