# Set up AWS account
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Before you use AWS IoT Core for the first time, complete the following tasks:

**Topics**
+ [Sign up for an AWS account](#sign-up-for-aws)
+ [Open the AWS IoT console](#iot-console-signin)

## Sign up for an AWS account
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To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see [Getting started with an AWS account](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html) in the *AWS Account Management Reference Guide*.
+ [Open the AWS IoT console](#iot-console-signin)

If you already have an AWS account and a user for yourself, you can use them and skip ahead to [Open the AWS IoT console](#iot-console-signin).

## Open the AWS IoT console
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Most of the console-oriented topics in this section start from the AWS IoT console. If you aren't already signed in to your AWS account, sign in, then open the [AWS IoT console](https://console.aws.amazon.com//iot/home) and continue to the next section to continue getting started with AWS IoT.