# Unified Operations Getting started: Prerequisites
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The following items are required to onboard to AWS Unified Operations

**A signed AWS Unified Operations contract. For more information, contact your AWS sales representative.**
+ Identified business needs, such as migration, modernization, events, target uptime, and so on.
+ A list of your workloads.
+ A list of your AWS accounts and associated AWS Regions.
+ Identified stakeholders across Application, Architecture, Operations, and Security teams.