April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 48m
English
Content preview from Distributed Computing with Python
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Creating an AWS account
In order to use AWS, one needs to create an account. The first year's usage of a reasonable amount of resources is free of charge; after that, standard charges are applied.
To create an account, you can point the web browser to https://aws.amazon.com and click on Create a Free Account, as shown in the following screenshot:
The account signup sequence asks for basic contact information, a payment method (it is, unfortunately, not possible to sign up for AWS without a debit or credit card), and some further information.
Once the account is active, you can log in to the administration console, which looks like the following screenshot: ...