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Complete prerequisites to set up Amazon Data Firehose - Amazon Data Firehose
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Complete prerequisites to set up Amazon Data Firehose

Before you use Amazon Data Firehose for the first time, complete the following tasks.

Sign up for AWS

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.

(Optional) Download libraries and tools

The following libraries and tools will help you work with Amazon Data Firehose programmatically and from the command line:

  • The Firehose API Operations is the basic set of operations that Amazon Data Firehose supports.

  • The AWS SDKs for Go, Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, and Ruby include Amazon Data Firehose support and samples.

    If your version of the AWS SDK for Java does not include samples for Amazon Data Firehose, you can also download the latest AWS SDK from GitHub.

  • The AWS Command Line Interface supports Amazon Data Firehose. The AWS CLI enables you to control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.