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Complete prerequisites to set up Amazon Data Firehose - Amazon Data Firehose
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Complete prerequisites to set up Amazon Data Firehose

Before you use Amazon Data Firehose for the first time, complete the following tasks.

Sign up for Amazon

Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

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.

Amazon sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to http://www.amazonaws.cn/ and choosing My Account.

Secure IAM users

After you sign up for an Amazon Web Services account, safeguard your administrative user by turning on multi-factor authentication (MFA). For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for an IAM user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

To give other users access to your Amazon Web Services account resources, create IAM users. To secure your IAM users, turn on MFA and only give the IAM users the permissions needed to perform their tasks.

For more information about creating and securing IAM users, see the following topics in the IAM User Guide:

(Optional) Download libraries and tools

The following libraries and tools will help you work with Amazon Data Firehose programmatically and from the command line:

  • The Firehose API Operations is the basic set of operations that Amazon Data Firehose supports.

  • The Amazon SDKs for Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, and Ruby include Amazon Data Firehose support and samples.

    If your version of the Amazon SDK for Java does not include samples for Amazon Data Firehose, you can also download the latest Amazon SDK from GitHub.

  • The Amazon Command Line Interface supports Amazon Data Firehose. The Amazon CLI enables you to control multiple Amazon services from the command line and automate them through scripts.