Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard - AWS Health
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Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard

You can use your AWS Health Dashboard to learn about AWS Health events. These events can affect your AWS services or AWS account. After you sign in to your account, the AWS Health Dashboard shows information in the following ways:

  • Your account events – This page shows events that are specific to your account. You can view open, recent, and scheduled changes. You can also view notifications and an event log that shows all events from the past 90 days.

  • Your organization events – This page shows events that are specific to your organization in AWS Organizations. You can view open, recent, and scheduled changes for your organization. You can also view notifications, as well as an event log that shows all organization events from the past 90 days.

Note

If you don't have an AWS account, you can use the AWS Health Dashboard to learn about general service availability.

If you have an account, we recommend that you sign in to your AWS Health Dashboard to get deeper insights into events and upcoming changes that might affect your services and resources.

Topics

Setting up your AWS account

Before you can enable AWS Health, you must have an AWS account. If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.

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

  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 a user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.

AWS sends you a confirmation email after the sign-up process is complete. At any time, you can view your current account activity and manage your account by going to https://aws.amazon.com/ and choosing My Account.

Create a user with administrative access

After you sign up for an AWS account, secure your AWS account root user, enable AWS IAM Identity Center, and create an administrative user so that you don't use the root user for everyday tasks.

Secure your AWS account root user

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console as the account owner by choosing Root user and entering your AWS account email address. On the next page, enter your password.

    For help signing in by using root user, see Signing in as the root user in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

  2. Turn on multi-factor authentication (MFA) for your root user.

    For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for your AWS account root user (console) in the IAM User Guide.

Create a user with administrative access

  1. Enable IAM Identity Center.

    For instructions, see Enabling AWS IAM Identity Center in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

  2. In IAM Identity Center, grant administrative access to a user.

    For a tutorial about using the IAM Identity Center directory as your identity source, see Configure user access with the default IAM Identity Center directory in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

Sign in as the user with administrative access

  • To sign in with your IAM Identity Center user, use the sign-in URL that was sent to your email address when you created the IAM Identity Center user.

    For help signing in using an IAM Identity Center user, see Signing in to the AWS access portal in the AWS Sign-In User Guide.

Assign access to additional users

  1. In IAM Identity Center, create a permission set that follows the best practice of applying least-privilege permissions.

    For instructions, see Create a permission set in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

  2. Assign users to a group, and then assign single sign-on access to the group.

    For instructions, see Add groups in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.