# Set up an AWS account and create an administrator user
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Before you use Managed Service for Apache Flink for the first time, complete the following tasks:

## Sign up for an AWS account
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To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see [Getting started with an AWS account](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) in the *AWS Account Management Reference Guide*.

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Managed Service for Apache Flink. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query managed-flink` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).