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title: "Setting up your AWS account"
chapter: true
weight: 32
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# Setting up your AWS account
If you don’t already have an AWS account with Administrator access: create one now by clicking here.
Once you have an AWS account, ensure you are following the remaining workshop steps as an IAM user with administrator access to the AWS account: Create a new IAM user to use for the workshop
Enter the user details: create user
Attach the AdministratorAccess IAM Policy: attach policy
Skip the part to add tags. Click to create the new user: finish creation
Take note of the login URL and save: login url
Make note of your user's ARN, as you will need it later. The ARN is of this format:
```
arn:aws:iam::157339908627:user/marco
```
### Next Section: Creating AWS Keys
In the next section, you will create AWS keys to allow Terraform to deply to AWS on your behalf.