Signing up for an AWS account and pricing - AWS CloudFormation

Signing up for an AWS account and pricing

Before you can use AWS CloudFormation or any Amazon Web Services, you must first sign up for an AWS account.

To sign up for an AWS account
  1. Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.

  2. Follow the online instructions.

    Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.

    When you sign up for an AWS account, an AWS account root user is created. The root user has access to all AWS services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to an administrative user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.

After signing up for an AWS account, you can use AWS CloudFormation through the AWS Management Console, AWS CloudFormation API, or AWS CLI.

Pricing

AWS CloudFormation is a free service; however, you are charged for the AWS resources you include in your stacks at the current rates for each. For more information about AWS pricing, go to the detail page for each product on http://aws.amazon.com.