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How to Register Pristine AWS Root Account

Step-by-step instructions for setting up a new AWS root account, including prerequisites such as deciding on an email address format, provisioning a shared 1Password vault, and gathering necessary contact and billing information.

REFARCH-60 - Register Pristine AWS Root Account

Prerequisites​

  1. REFARCH-51 - Decide on Email Address Format for AWS Accounts

  2. REFARCH-31 - Provision 1Password with Shared Vault

  3. REFARCH-471 - Decide on AWS Organization Strategy

  4. Company primary contact information

  5. Company credit card and billing information

  6. Company business mobile phone number you have access to use for SMS

  7. Email address that supports plus addressing (e.g. [email protected])

Instructions​

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See the official AWS Documentation for the most up-to-date instructions. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/

  1. Navigate to this link to create an AWS account: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start

  2. Specify the email address defined in the design decision and append +root before the @sign (e.g. [email protected])

  3. In AWS, every AWS account needs a unique email address. We use + addressing for each account for disambiguation. Since this is the root account, we’re appending +root

  4. + addressing is not universally supported. E.g. Gsuite supports it but Microsoft Exchange does not.

  5. Generate a strong password and add it to the appropriate 1Password vault. Make sure it’s the vault you’ve shared with Cloud Posse.

  6. AWS account name will be root

  7. Click Continue (step 1 of 5)

  8. Select “How do you plan to use AWS?” radio button: Business - for your work, school or organization

  9. Add the primary contact’s full name

  10. Enter your company’s name as it appears on legal documentation

  11. Enter the primary contact’s business phone number

  12. Enter the company’s legal address

  13. Click the link provided to read the terms AWS Customer Agreement and check the box

  14. Click Continue (step 2 of 5)

  15. Enter billing information

  16. Click Verify and Continue (step 3 of 5)

  17. Select “How should we send you the verification code?” radio button: Text message (SMS)

  18. Enter a business mobile phone number that you have access to use. Ideally, this is a number that can forward text messages to your team (e.g. Google Voice or Twillio).

  19. Complete the Security check

  20. Click Send SMS (step 4 of 5)

  21. Enter the verification code that was sent as an SMS message to the mobile phone number provided in step 16

  22. Click Continue (step 4 of 5)

  23. Select Business support - From $100/month

  24. We recommend this support plan so we can use it to expedite account limit increases for the organization. This will be useful throughout the engagement.

  25. Click “Complete sign up”

  26. Click on the button Go to the AWS Management Console

  27. Select the radio button Root user

  28. Enter the Root user email address and click Next

  29. This is the same address we set up in step 2 ([email protected])

  30. Complete the Security check and click Submit

  31. Enter the password that was stored in 1Password for this account in step 3 and click Sign in

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Congratulations! You are now able to proceed with the rest of the cold start process.

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