Tutorial: Sign up for an Amazon Web Services account

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The same Amazon from whom you buy books and many other things per mail also runs Amazon Web Services, which offers allows you to rent various types of computing equipment. For example, you can rent a virtual server (Amazon calls it an "instance"), which you can run your website on.

Before we can do that, however, you need to sign up for an Amazon Web Services account. Even if you already have a regular account for the Amazon website, you still need to sign up for Amazon Web Services; it's a separate account.

Note: Sign up for Amazon Web Services before you need it. They sometimes need 24h or longer to activate new accounts.

Sign up for Amazon Web Services

Here are the steps:

1. Go to aws.amazon.com. Click to sign up for a new account (or a "free account" -- they both lead to the same place).