AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform which offers a broad set of cloud-based infrastructure service and products. Including compute power, database, storage, networking, developer tools, management tools, security, IoT, and application service. All of this including much more is available in seconds with a click of a button. AWS does the tedious job of installation, configuration, availability, scalability, and network setup in back.

Amazon Web Service (AWS) also offers pay-as-you-go pricing. You only pay for the service that you use and how much you use. So, you don’t pay extra when your system is idle or not being used.

Amazon has over 140 AWS service available that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. Amazon Web Service (AWS) are being used and available in 190 countries around the world and growing every day. Today, Amazon Web Service (AWS) is the pioneer of cloud computing without a doubt.

How to create an account?

To get started with Amazon Web Service (AWS), you would need to create an account first.
Here are the simple steps to create and activate an account:

AWS Create Account

Create Account
Go the AWS Home Page and click on Sign Up.
Enter the requested information and continue.
Choose type of account i.e. Personal Or Professional.
Note: There is no difference in the functionality of accounts, they are identical.
Add personal/company information.
Read the AWS Customer Agreement and check the box.
Press create account and continue button.

You will receive an confirmation email from AWS that your account has been created. You can login now but you must continue with the activation of your account to use AWS service.

Add a payment method
You will be requested to add the payment details like Credit card etc.
Enter a new address or use existing and hit the Secure Submit button.
Verify your phone number
Enter your phone number and make sure that the phone is reachable to you at the moment with incoming calls.
Press call me now button and you will receive an automated call.
Type the provided pin and let the process complete then continue.
Choose a Support plan
Choose a Support plan from one of the available plans, see AWS Support – Plans.
You will be confirmed that your account has been activated.

Note: It takes a few minutes to get your account activated but in the worst case, AWS may take up to 24 hours. During this time you can ignore the “Complete Sign Up”.