Setting up MediaPackage

Before you start using AWS Elemental MediaPackage (MediaPackage), you must sign up for AWS (if you don’t already have an AWS account) and create IAM users and roles to allow access to MediaPackage. This includes creating an IAM role for yourself. If you want to use encryption to protect your content, you also must store your encryption keys in AWS Secrets Manager, and then give MediaPackage permission to obtain the keys from your Secrets Manager account.

This section guides you through the steps required to configure users and roles to access MediaPackage. For background and additional information about identity and access management for MediaPackage, see Identity and Access Management for AWS Elemental MediaPackage.

Sign up for an AWS account

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). 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, use Sign up for AWS.