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AWS Account Overview

AWS Account Overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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AWS Account Overview

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Welcome back. In this video I'm going to give you a brief overview of what AWS accounts are, how we create them and how we manage them. And then in the next lesson I'm going to show you how to create your own free tier account on AWS. So to get started what do you need to open an AWS account? First thing is you will need a credit card. Secondly you're going to need a unique e-mail address. and by unique, I mean it cannot be associated with any other AWS account. Now you can create multiple AWS accounts, but you will need a different e-mail address for them. But the credit card can be the same. I often use dynamic e-mail aliases. So if your e-mail address was john at gmail.com, you can do john plus AWS account one at gmail.com, and then AWS account two at gmail.com, and so on. That's a dynamic e-mail alias. It works with Gmail, it works with some other mail services as well. So once you've got these two things, you can create an AWS account. Now when you do so, it's going to create…

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