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Setting up the AWS SDK - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: High Availability and Elasticity
Setting up the AWS SDK
- [Instructor] In this next section, we're going to take a look at working with programmatic access to AWS services for HA in Elasticity. You want to start on the page AWS.amazon.com/tools. We're going to look at SDKs. Now you'll notice there are a large number of languages supported, and your implementation may differ depending on which language you choose to work with. The patterns are the same though. I'm going to use Node because I find it to be the simplest, but I've also worked with Java, and .net, and Python. They're all very solidly written, and they have similar flow to the API. The first part of this, of course, is the installation. I'm going to open that tab. I'm going to go over to the installation for Node. Of course, you would have to have Node installed properly first or your particular language. You would want to have an IDE as well. I'm going to be using Visual Studio code. Again, it doesn't really matter which one you use. You just want to use the language runtime…
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