# Resources: Profiles
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A *profile *is a pre-defined collection of values for most of the data in an AWS Elemental Live channel. When you use AWS Elemental Conductor Live to create a channel, you associate it with a profile in order to set up all that data.

In Conductor Live, profiles are required. To create a channel, you must use a profile.

This section describes how to use Conductor Live to create, modify or delete a profile.

**Topics**
+ [Creating a profile from scratch](creating-a-profile-from-scratch.md)
+ [Working with channel parameters in a profile](creating-a-profile-with-channel-parameters.md)
+ [Creating a profile for an SPTS channel](step-b-create-a-profile-for-mpts-channels.md)
+ [Creating a profile by duplicating an existing profile](creating-a-profile-by-duplicating.md)
+ [Creating a profile by uploading XML](creating-a-profile-by-uploading-xml.md)
+ [Modifying a profile](modifying-a-profile.md)
+ [Viewing the contents of a profile](viewing-the-contents-of-a-profile.md)
+ [Deleting a profile](deleting-a-profile.md)