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Setting up and signing into Amazon Quick - Amazon Quick
Complete initial configuration tasks
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Setting up and signing into Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick offers two ways to get started, depending on your needs:

Free and Plus accounts (quick.aws.com): Sign up at https://quick.aws.com using an email address. Amazon Quick creates an account for you automatically using your email or social login credentials. Choose from Free, Free Trial Plus, or Paid Plus plan tiers. No Amazon Web Services account or technical configuration is required.

Amazon Console accounts: If your organization uses Amazon, you can provision Amazon Quick through the Amazon Web Services Management Console. This path uses IAM Identity Center for authentication and integrates with your existing Amazon billing and governance.

For a comparison of features available with each account type, see Pricing and availability.

For more information on administering your account after setup, see Administering Amazon Quick (Free/Plus) or Administering Amazon Quick for accounts provisioned through the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

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Complete initial configuration tasks

Note

The following configuration tasks apply to Amazon Console accounts only. If you are signing up at quick.aws.com, these steps are handled automatically. See Signing up at quick.aws.com instead.

To use Amazon Quick you must first complete the following tasks:

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: