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Before you deploy this Quick Start, we recommend that you become familiar with the following AWS services. (If you are new to AWS, see https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/[Getting Started with AWS].)

* https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ec2/[Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)]
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html[Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)]
* https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/vpc/[Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)]
* https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudformation/[AWS CloudFormation]
* http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/vpc-nat-gateway.html[NAT gateway]
* http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/iam/[AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)]
* https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/userguide/what-is-load-balancing.html[Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)]
* https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/acm/[AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)]

In addition, you should be familiar with the following:

* Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019
* Microsoft Active Directory and Domain Name System (DNS)
* Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
* Exchange database availability groups (DAGs)

For information, see the Microsoft product documentation for these technologies.