We are getting started with AWS Amplify and we need to configure the CLI.

Approach

First setup the AWS Free Tier Account.

Then install AWS Amplify:

npm i -g @aws-amplify/cli

Configure Amplify:

amplify configure

Select the options. For example:

region: US East 1
user name (For IAM User): amplifyuser

The IAM Dashboard will now open up. Will will use this to obtain our access key and secret access key.

Select next permissisons > next review > Create user.

Save the access key id and the secret access key CSV file and store it some place safe.

Congrats you are ready to Rock! To see a list of command the CLI provides run amplify --help.