Signing up for an Amazon account and pricing - Amazon CloudFormation
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Signing up for an Amazon account and pricing

Before you can use Amazon CloudFormation or any Amazon Web Services, you must first sign up for an Amazon account.

To sign up for an Amazon Web Services account
  1. Open https://portal.amazonaws.cn/billing/signup.

  2. Follow the online instructions.

    Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.

    When you sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, an Amazon Web Services account root user is created. The root user has access to all Amazon Web Services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to an administrative user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.

After signing up for an Amazon Web Services account, you can use Amazon CloudFormation through the Amazon Web Services Management Console, Amazon CloudFormation API, or Amazon CLI.

Pricing

Amazon CloudFormation is a free service; however, you are charged for the Amazon resources you include in your stacks at the current rates for each. For more information about Amazon pricing, go to the detail page for each product on http://www.amazonaws.cn.