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Setting up - AWS Control Tower

Setting up

Before you use AWS Control Tower for the first time, follow the steps in this section to create an AWS account and protect your AWS Control Tower management account. For information on additional setup tasks specifically for AWS Control Tower, see Getting started with AWS Control Tower.

Sign up for AWS

When you sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), your AWS account is automatically signed up for all services in AWS, including AWS Control Tower. If you have an AWS account already, skip to the next task. If you don't have an AWS account, use the following procedure to create one.

Note your AWS account number, because you need it for other tasks.

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.

Security for your accounts

You can find additional guidance about how to set up best practices that protect the security of your AWS Control Tower accounts, in the AWS Organizations documentation.

Next step

Getting started with AWS Control Tower