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Introduction
With AWS, you can requisition compute, storage, and other services on demand, gaining access to a suite of secure, scalable, and flexible IT infrastructure services as your organization needs them. This enables educators, academic researchers, and students to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of AWS to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors, and explore new projects – tasks that previously would have required expensive upfront and ongoing investments in infrastructure.
For more information, see
Cloud Computing
for Education
To access any AWS service, you need an AWS account. Each AWS account is typically associated with a payment instrument (credit card or invoicing). You can create an AWS account for any entity, such as a professor, student, class, department, or institution. When you create an AWS account, you can sign into the AWS Management Console and access a variety of AWS services.
Protect these security credentials and do not share them publicly.
For more information, see AWS security credentials and
AWS Management Console.
If you require more than one person to access your AWS account,
AWS Identity and Access Management
A user is a unique identity recognized by AWS services and applications. Similar to a user login in an operating system such Windows. macOS, or Linux, each user has a unique name and can identify themselves using various kinds of security credentials.
A user can be an individual, such as a student or teaching assistant, or an application, such as a research application, that requires access to AWS services. You can create users, groups, roles, and federation capabilities using the AWS Management Console, APIs, or a variety of AWS Partner products.
For instructions on how to create new users and manage AWS credentials, see Creating an IAM user in your AWS account in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide.
Depending on your teaching or research needs, there are several ways to set up a multi-user environment in the AWS Cloud. The following sections introduce three possible scenarios.
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