# Creating your AWS Credentials

Even if you already have an AWS account you still need to Sign Up to Amazon SES. Go to the [Amazon SES Sign up page](https://aws.amazon.com/ses/) and follow the On Screen Instructions.

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Once you are done you can continue with the following steps.

**1. Create a permissions policy for Mailblast. We only need access to AWS SES and AWS SNS for email delivery and tracking.**

Go to the [IAM Create Policy](https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/home#/policies$new) page:

Select the **JSON** Tab and paste in the following:

```
{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": [
        "ses:*",
        "sns:ListTopics",
        "sns:CreateTopic",
        "sns:GetTopicAttributes",
        "sns:Subscribe"
      ],
      "Resource": [
        "*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

Enter **mailblast-policy** as the name and enter in the above policy in the **Policy Document.**

\*\*\*\*This gives Mailblast the required permissions to send and track emails on your behalf. Click on the **Create Policy** button when done.

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**2. Create new user for Mailblast.**

You now need to a create a new user. Head over to the the [IAM Management Console](https://signin.aws.amazon.com/signin?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fus-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com%2Fiam%2Fhome%3Fregion%3Dus-east-1%26state%3DhashArgs%2523%252Fusers%2524new%253Fstep%253Ddetails%26isauthcode%3Dtrue\&client_id=arn%3Aaws%3Aiam%3A%3A015428540659%3Auser%2Fiam\&forceMobileApp=0\&code_challenge=rE-FvqYTA-vGzInRloo2aolKMgPJOrcpuIePHzexVtU\&code_challenge_method=SHA-256) and create a new user called **mailblast-user**.

Check the **Programmatic access** option click **Next: Permissions**.

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You now need to attach the permission policy you created earlier to your new user. Select **mailblast-policy** and click **Next: Review**.

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**3. Configuring Mailblast with your new credentials**

Click **Show** to reveal the credentials and Copy the **Access key ID** and **Secret access key** over into the Mailblast [AWS Settings](https://www.mailblast.io/account/aws_settings) page.

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