Setting up your Amazon access for Amazon Snowball Edge - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Setting up your Amazon access for Amazon Snowball Edge

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In the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Amazon Web Services Region service is provided by Amazon on Internet Services Private Limited (AISPL). For information on signing up for Amazon Web Services in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Amazon Web Services Region, see Signing Up for AISPL.

When you sign up for Amazon Web Services (Amazon), your Amazon Web Services account is automatically signed up for all services in Amazon, including Amazon Snow Family. You are charged only for the services that you use. For more information about pricing and fees, see Amazon Snowball Edge Pricing. Amazon Snowball Edge is not free to use. For more information on what Amazon services are free, see Amazon Free Usage Tier.

Note your Amazon Web Services account number, because you'll need it to create a job to order a Snowball Edge.

Services in Amazon, such as Amazon Snowball Edge, require that you provide credentials when you access them, so that the service can determine whether you have permission to access its resources. Amazon recommends not using the root credentials of your Amazon Web Services account to make requests. Instead, create an Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, and grant that user full access. We refer to these users as IAM users with administrator-level credentials.

You can use the administrator user credentials, instead of root credentials of your account, to interact with Amazon and perform tasks, such as to create an Amazon S3 bucket, create users, and grant them permissions. For more information, see Comparing Amazon account root user credentials and IAM user credentials in the Amazon General Reference and IAM Best Practices in IAM User Guide.

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: