Step 1: Set up an AWS Account and create an administrator User - Amazon Lex
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Step 1: Set up an AWS Account and create an administrator User

Before you use Amazon Lex V2 for the first time, complete the following tasks:

  1. Sign Up for AWS

  2. Create an IAM user

Sign Up for AWS

If you already have an AWS account, skip this task.

When you sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), your AWS account is automatically signed up for all services in AWS, including Amazon Lex V2. You are charged only for the services that you use.

With Amazon Lex V2, you pay only for the resources that you use. If you are a new AWS customer, you can get started with Amazon Lex V2 for free. For more information, see AWS Free Usage Tier.

If you already have an AWS account, skip to the next task. If you don't have an AWS account, use the following procedure to create one.

To create an AWS account

  1. Open https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.

  2. Follow the online instructions.

    Part of the sign-up procedure involves receiving a phone call and entering a verification code on the phone keypad.

    When you sign up for an AWS account, an AWS account root user is created. The root user has access to all AWS services and resources in the account. As a security best practice, assign administrative access to a user, and use only the root user to perform tasks that require root user access.

Write down your AWS account ID because you'll need it for the next task.

Create an IAM user

Services in AWS, such as Amazon Lex V2, require that you provide credentials when you access them so that the service can determine whether you have permissions to access the resources owned by that service.

Create an IAM user account to access your account for Amazon Lex V2:

  • Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to create an IAM user

  • Add the user to an IAM group with administrative permissions

  • Grant administrative permissions to the IAM user that you created.

You can then access AWS using a special URL and the IAM user's credentials.

The Getting Started exercises in this guide assume that you have a user (adminuser) with administrator privileges. Follow the procedure to create adminuser in your account.

To create an administrator user and sign in to the console

  1. Create an administrator user called adminuser in your AWS account. For instructions, see Creating Your First IAM user and Administrators Group in the IAM User Guide.

  2. As a user, you can sign in to the AWS Management Console using a special URL. For more information, How Users Sign In to Your Account in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about IAM, see the following:

Grant programmatic access

Users need programmatic access if they want to interact with AWS outside of the AWS Management Console. The way to grant programmatic access depends on the type of user that's accessing AWS.

To grant users programmatic access, choose one of the following options.

Which user needs programmatic access? To By

Workforce identity

(Users managed in IAM Identity Center)

 Use temporary credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs.

Following the instructions for the interface that you want to use.
IAM Use temporary credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs. Following the instructions in Using temporary credentials with AWS resources in the IAM User Guide.
IAM

(Not recommended)

Use long-term credentials to sign programmatic requests to the AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or AWS APIs.

Following the instructions for the interface that you want to use.

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Step 2: Getting started (console)