AWS lightsail-for-research: Update AWS account sign-up guidance in Lightsail for Research setup
Summary
Replaces the AWS account creation sentence with the two-option sign-up guidance, including the advanced sign-up path for regulated workloads, in the Lightsail for Research setup page.
Security assessment
Onboarding text change replicated across guides; it does not document a security feature, hardening step, or fix, and carries no exploitable implication.
Evidence
+To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. There are two ways to sign up for AWS. If you want complete control over account configuration and where your content is stored, or if you have regulated workloads such as HIPAA or FedRAMP, use [Sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html). If you are a new user and want to use a login you already own to sign in to AWS and create an AWS environment with preconfigured defaults in select [AWS Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/project-regions.html), use [Sign up for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html).
Diff
diff --git a/lightsail-for-research/latest/ug/setting-up.md b/lightsail-for-research/latest/ug/setting-up.md index b29d358..2565916 100644 --- a//lightsail-for-research/latest/ug/setting-up.md +++ b//lightsail-for-research/latest/ug/setting-up.md @@ -15 +15 @@ If you're a new AWS customer, complete the setup prerequisites that are listed o -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_. +To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. There are two ways to sign up for AWS. If you want complete control over account configuration and where your content is stored, or if you have regulated workloads such as HIPAA or FedRAMP, use [Sign up for AWS (advanced)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/getting-started.html). If you are a new user and want to use a login you already own to sign in to AWS and create an AWS environment with preconfigured defaults in select [AWS Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/project-regions.html), use [Sign up for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/sign-in-new.html).