# Setting up and signing into Amazon Quick
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Amazon Quick offers two ways to get started, depending on your needs:
+ **Get started quickly** – If you're an individual or small team and don't have an AWS account, see [Signing up at aws.com/quick](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/standalone-signup.html).
+ **Use Quick with your organization's AWS account** – If your organization already uses AWS services, see [Signing up through the AWS Console](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/signing-up.html).

**Free and Plus accounts:** Sign up at [https://aws.com/quick](https://aws.com/quick) using an email address. Amazon Quick creates an account for you automatically using your email or social login credentials. Choose from Free, Free Trial Plus, or Paid Plus plan tiers. No AWS account or technical configuration is required.

**AWS Console accounts:** If your organization uses AWS, you can provision Amazon Quick through the AWS Management Console. This path uses IAM Identity Center for authentication and integrates with your existing AWS billing and governance.

If your IAM Identity Center instance is replicated to multiple AWS Regions, you can create your Quick Enterprise subscription in an active additional Region. For more information, see [Set up Amazon Quick with IAM Identity Center multi-Region](setting-up-sso.md#idc-multi-region).

For a comparison of features available with each account type, see [Pricing and availability](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/what-is.html#pricing).

For more information on administering your account after setup, see [Administering Amazon Quick (Free/Plus/Max)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/standalone-admin-guide.html) or [Administering Amazon Quick](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/qsysadmin.html) for accounts provisioned through the AWS Management Console.

**Topics**
+ [Complete initial configuration tasks](#setting-up-create-iam-user)
+ [Signing up at aws.com/quick](standalone-signup.md)
+ [Signing up through the AWS Console](signing-up.md)
+ [Signing in to Amazon Quick](signing-in.md)

## Complete initial configuration tasks
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**Note**  
The following configuration tasks apply to AWS Console accounts only. If you are signing up for Free/Plus/Max with email at [aws.com/quick](https://aws.com/quick), these steps are handled automatically. See [Signing up at aws.com/quick](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quicksuite/latest/userguide/standalone-signup.html) instead.

 To use Amazon Quick you must first complete the following tasks: 

**Topics**
+ [Sign up for an AWS account](#sign-up-for-aws)

### 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*.