First, you'll need to go to aws.amazon.com and set yourself up an account.
Now that you have an AWS root account, you should set up MFA.
Search for Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the search bar and set up MFA for your root user.
Work through the rest of the AWS-TODO.txt items found here.
There's plenty of documentation available online, anything I write down here will invariably become outdated, and I trust your Googling abilities.
You will of course need Python installed first.
For Linux users type which python or which python3
If nothing comes up for you, you will need o install Python.
For Linux users you can install it with the following sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 -y
That command will first update your known packages, and if successful will then install Python 3 and bypass the user input of having to confirm this is the package you want.
To set up the virtual environment see the pdt entry in the Project Structure section of the READMEs
Well, if everything else has been done correctly, you should just be able to issue the following commands:
pdt aws-login
pdt sam-deploy
Once the application is fully deployed, you'll want to subscribe yourself to the various topics to start getting notifications. Use
pdt subscribe
to subscribe yourself to the notifications and that's it, you should be all set.