# AWS Quick Start Guide: Back Up Your Files to Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Welcome to the *AWS Quick Start Guide: Back Up Your Files to Amazon Simple Storage Service*. You can use Amazon S3 to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time, from anywhere on the web. By completing the steps in this quick start guide, you will successfully create a new S3 bucket, add a file to it, retrieve this file, and finally delete it, all within the [AWS Free Tier](http://aws.amazon.com/free/).

This quick start guide includes the following topics:
+ [Step 1: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket](step-1-create-bucket.md)
+ [Step 2: Upload a File to Your Amazon S3 Bucket](step-2-upload-file.md)
+ [Step 3: Retrieve a File from Your Amazon S3 Bucket](step-3-retrieve-file.md)
+ [Step 4: Delete a File From Your Amazon S3 Bucket](step-4-delete-file.md)

For more information about Amazon S3, see the [Amazon Simple Storage Service Documentation](http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/s3/).

## 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*.