Create An AWS Account Step By Step

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Create An AWS Account Step By Step

這篇介紹Create An AWS Account Step By Step.

Step By Step

Stage 1 - Sign up for an account

  1. Visit the Amazon Web Services home page.

  2. Choose Create an AWS Account.
    Note: If you signed in to AWS recently, choose Sign in to the Console.
    If Create a new AWS account isn’t visible, first choose Sign in to a
    different account, and then choose Create a new AWS account.

  3. Enter your account information, and then choose Continue.
    Be sure that you enter your account information correctly, especially
    your email address. If you enter your email address incorrectly,
    you can’t access your account.

  4. Choose Personal or Professional.
    Note: These two account types are identical in functionality.
    You can choose a personal account for your personal projects or choose
    professional for use within your company, an educational institution,
    or an organization.

  5. Enter your company or personal information.

  6. Read the AWS Customer Agreement, and then check the box.

  7. Click Create Account and Continue.

Stage 2 - Add a payment method

  1. On the Payment Information page, add a payment method by typing
    the requested information associated with your payment method.
  2. Choose Verify and Add.
    Important: You can’t proceed with the sign-up process until you add a
    valid payment method.

Stage 3 - Verify your identity

  1. On the Identity Verification page. Choose your country or region
    code from the list.
  2. Enter a phone number where you can be reached in the next few minutes.
  3. Enter the code displayed in the CAPTCHA.
  4. When you’re ready to receive a call or text message (sms). Choose
    Contact me/Send SMS. In a few moments you should be contacted via the
    verification system.
  5. Enter the verification code you receive and choose Verify Code.
  6. Choose Continue.

Stage 4 - Choose an AWS Support plan

  1. On the Select a Support Plan page, select the Basic Plan
    included in the free tier.
  2. Click Sign in to Console to sign in to your console.

Stage 5 - Set up free tier alert and custom billing alert

  1. Search for Billing in the search bar and select it.
  2. In the left hand navigation bar select Billing preferences
  3. Under the Cost Management Preferences section, select the check
    boxes for Receive Free Tier Usage Alerts and Receive Billing Alerts.
  4. Enter your email address into the text input box under Receive
    Free Tier Usage Alerts.
  5. Select Save preferences.
  6. In the services search bar, type in CloudWatch and select it.
  7. If necessary, change the Region in the upper right corner to
    US East (N. Virginia). Billing metric data is stored in this Region
    and represents worldwide charges.
  8. In the navigation pane, choose Alarms, then click Create Alarm.
  9. Choose Select metric. In the search bar under Metrics, type in
    Billing, then choose Billing >Total Estimated Charge. If you don’t
    see Billing or the Total Estimated Charge metric, you may need to
    go back a few steps to enable billing alerts from the Billing
    preferences page.
  10. Select the check box next to EstimatedCharges, and choose
    Select metric.
  11. Under Conditions, choose Static.
  12. For Whenever EstimatedCharges is, choose Greater.
  13. For than, enter the monthly amount (this should be whatever
    number you are comfortable with. For example, 10) that must be
    exceeded to trigger the alarm. Choose Next.
  14. In the Notification box, for Alarm State Trigger, select In
    alarm. Under Select an SNS Topic, choose create a new topic to be
    notified.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) is a service that
publishes messages to a topic which delivers the message to all topic
subscribers.

  1. Enter a topic name. The name must be unique. Then, type
    in your email to receive the notification.
    NOTE: You will get an email in your inbox asking you to confirm your
    subscription to this topic. By confirming, you’re ensuring that you
    will get notifications when your estimated billing charges rises
    above your threshold.Click Create Topic. Then, select Next.

  2. Enter in an alarm name and description. The name must contain
    only ASCII characters.

  3. Under Preview and create, confirm that the information and
    conditions are what you want, then choose Create alarm.