# Prerequisites
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Before you begin, ensure that you have the following:
+ An active AWS account.
+ IAM permissions to create roles and policies in your account.
+ (Optional) AWS Organizations configured if you plan to use multi-account governance.
+ (Optional) AWS resources deployed via AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, resource tags, or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service that you want to assess.