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Setting up and signing into Amazon Quick - Amazon Quick
Complete initial configuration tasks

Setting up and signing into Amazon Quick

Amazon Quick offers two ways to get started, depending on your needs:

Free and Plus accounts: Sign up at https://aws.com/quick using an email address. Amazon Quick creates an account for you automatically using your email or social login credentials. Choose from Free, Free Trial Plus, or Paid Plus plan tiers. No AWS account or technical configuration is required.

AWS Console accounts: If your organization uses AWS, you can provision Amazon Quick through the AWS Management Console. This path uses IAM Identity Center for authentication and integrates with your existing AWS billing and governance.

If your IAM Identity Center instance is replicated to multiple AWS Regions, you can create your Quick Enterprise subscription in an active additional Region. For more information, see Set up Amazon Quick with IAM Identity Center multi-Region.

For a comparison of features available with each account type, see Pricing and availability.

For more information on administering your account after setup, see Administering Amazon Quick (Free/Plus/Max) or Administering Amazon Quick for accounts provisioned through the AWS Management Console.

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Complete initial configuration tasks

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The following configuration tasks apply to AWS Console accounts only. If you are signing up for Free/Plus/Max with email at aws.com/quick, these steps are handled automatically. See Signing up at aws.com/quick instead.

To use Amazon Quick you must first complete the following tasks:

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. There are two ways to sign up for AWS. If you want complete control over account configuration and where your content is stored, or if you have regulated workloads such as HIPAA or FedRAMP, use Sign up for AWS (advanced). If you are a new user and want to use a login you already own to sign in to AWS and create an AWS environment with preconfigured defaults in select AWS Regions, use Sign up for AWS.