# Setting up Amazon Batch
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If you've already signed up for Amazon Web Services (Amazon) and are using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), you can soon use Amazon Batch. The setup process for these services is similar. This is because Amazon Batch uses Amazon ECS container instances in its compute environments. To use the Amazon CLI with Amazon Batch, you must use a version of the Amazon CLI that supports the latest Amazon Batch features. If you don't see support for an Amazon Batch feature in the Amazon CLI, upgrade to the latest version. For more information, see [http://www.amazonaws.cn/cli/](http://www.amazonaws.cn/cli/).

**Note**  
Because Amazon Batch uses components of Amazon EC2, you use the Amazon EC2 console for many of these steps.

Complete the following tasks to get set up for Amazon Batch.

**Topics**
+ [Create IAM account and administrative user](create-an-iam-account.md)
+ [Create IAM roles for your compute environments and container instances](create-an-iam-role.md)
+ [Create a key pair for your instances](create-a-key-pair.md)
+ [Create a VPC](create-a-vpc.md)
+ [Create a security group](create-a-base-security-group.md)
+ [Install the Amazon CLI](install_aws_cli.md)