How to do it...

Follow these steps to set up your core accounts:

  1. Create a new account using the recipe in Chapter 1, AWS Fundamentals. Pay special attention to the security recommendations, since this will be the master account for your new multi-account AWS environment. Give users strong passwords, and always configure multi-factor authentication!
  2. Log in to the new master account as a user with full administrative privileges and navigate to the Control Tower console. Click the Get Started button to set up a new environment.
  3. Configure the email addresses for each of the subordinate accounts that will be created for you by Control Tower:
Setting up the AWS Control Tower Shared account

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