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You are responsible for the cost of the AWS services used while running this workshop in your AWS account.
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Your account must have the ability to create new IAM roles and scope other IAM permissions.
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## Create an account 

1. If you don't already have an AWS account with Administrator access: [create
one now](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/connect/latest/adminguide/gettingstarted.html#sign-up-for-aws)

2. 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](https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home?region=us-east-1#/users$new)

3. Enter the user details:
![Iam-1](images/iam-1.png)

![Iam-2](images/iam-2.png)


![Iam-3](images/iam-3.png)


![Iam-4](images/iam-4.png)


![Iam-5](images/iam-5.png)


![Iam-6](images/iam-6.png)


Do not close this windows without recording you **AWS_ACCESS_KEY** and **AWS_SECRET_ACCESS**

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