Prerequisites for working with Amazon Resource Groups - Amazon Resource Groups
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Prerequisites for working with Amazon Resource Groups

Before you get started working with resource groups, be sure you have an active Amazon account with existing resources and appropriate rights to tag resources and create groups.

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Sign up for Amazon

If you do not have an Amazon Web Services account, use the following procedure to create one.

To sign up for Amazon Web Services

  1. Open http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choose Sign Up.

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

Create resources

You can create an empty resource group, but won't be able to perform any tasks on resource group members until there are resources in the group. For more information about the supported resource types, see Resource types you can use with Amazon Resource Groups and Tag Editor.