An AWS account is a fundamental requirement for accessing AWS services. Your AWS account is the basic container for all of the AWS resources you create as an AWS user. Your AWS account is also the basic security boundary for your AWS resources. Any resources that you create in your account are available to users who have credentials for the account. Before you can start using AWS Storage Gateway, you need to sign up for an AWS account.
If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.
To sign up for an AWS account
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 a user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.
We also recommend that you require your users to use temporary credentials when accessing AWS. To provide temporary credentials, you can use federation and an identity provider, such as AWS IAM Identity Center. If your company already uses an identity provider, you can use it with federation to simplify how you provide access to the resources in your AWS account.
