Setting up your account to use the services
This topic describes preliminary steps, such as creating an account, to prepare you to use Amazon WAF, Amazon Firewall Manager, and Amazon Shield Advanced. You aren't charged for these preliminary items. You are charged only for Amazon services that you use.
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
Open http://www.amazonaws.cn/
and choose Sign Up. 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/
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:
Download tools
The Amazon Web Services Management Console includes a console for Amazon WAF, Amazon Shield Advanced, and Amazon Firewall Manager, but if you want to access the services programmatically, see the following:
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The API guides document the operations that the services support and provide links to the related SDK and CLI documentation:
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To call an API without having to handle low-level details like assembling raw HTTP requests, you can use an Amazon SDK. The Amazon SDKs provide functions and data types that encapsulate the functionality of Amazon services. To download an Amazon SDK and access installation instructions, see the applicable page:
For a complete list of Amazon SDKs, see Tools for Amazon Web Services
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You can use the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to control multiple Amazon services from the command line. You can also automate your commands using scripts. For more information, see Amazon Command Line Interface
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Amazon Tools for Windows PowerShell supports these Amazon services. For more information, see Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference
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