A lot can be done with the web interface in the AWS Management Console. It's a good place to start and help you to understand what you are building, but most often it is not recommended for production deployments as it is time-consuming and prone to human error. Best practice is to deploy and manage your infrastructure using code and configuration only. We will be using the AWS Command-line Interface (CLI), bash shell scripts, and Python 3 throughout this book, so let's set these up now.