Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Getting Started Guide (API Version 2011-12-15)
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Sign Up for EC2

Sign up for EC2

If you already have an AWS account, skip to the next procedure. If you don't already have an AWS account, use the following procedure to create one.

[Note]Note

When you create an account, AWS automatically signs up the account for all services. You are charged only for the services you use.

To create an AWS account

  1. Go to http://aws.amazon.com, and click Create an AWS Account.

  2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

    Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a PIN using the phone keypad.

Launch instance