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Setting up an AWS account

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Setting up an AWS account

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- [Instructor] Let's start using Amazon Web Services. To do this, we can set up a free tier account which offers ongoing access to some of the core products at no cost. For those services that are not free, there's typically a free trial period during which we can use them at no cost. Let's see how we set up a free account. It's pretty simple. We enter our email address, a password, and create an account name of our choice. I've already set up my Amazon account, so I won't proceed, but if you haven't already got an account, you might like to pause and set one up right now. Once we've done this, we're given an account number and access credentials for the root user. Once we have an account, we can log into the AWS Management Console. We need to use our root account the first time we log in, but one of the first tasks we should do is to create an administrative account in the identity and access management system, so that…

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