Signing up for a free trial of AWS

The first thing we will need to do is sign up for an AWS account. To get started, visit https://aws.amazon.com/ in your browser. Note the yellow button in the middle of the page reading Create a Free Account. Click that button to begin the signup process.

You can learn about what the Free Tier actually offers by clicking the link underneath the Sign Up button. The relevant parts of the free tier for our purposes are the following:

• 12 full months of selected free services, starting at the time you create an account.
• 750 hours per month of compute and database services. A 31-day month has 744 hours in it, so 750 hours is enough to let them run all month without worry.
• 5 GB of storage. We will use their storage service, S3, to keep log files and things of that nature, so 5 GB is plenty.

After clicking the Sign Up button, you may create your account:

1. Enter your email, a strong password, and a username.
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