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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Quickstart
> Create an organization, connect AWS and GitHub, and open your first project.
This guide takes you from a new Gapstack account to a project on the [dashboard](https://app.gapstack.dev/). When you finish, Gapstack can provision AWS resources in your account and deploy artifacts from your GitHub repositories, such as Lambda code.
## Prerequisites
Before you start, you need:
* An email you can use to sign up
* An AWS account where you have **AdministratorAccess** (recommended). Root user access works, but is not recommended.
* A GitHub account that can install the Gapstack GitHub App
Gapstack deploys into **your** AWS account. The CloudFormation stack you create only grants Gapstack permission to provision resources there. You own the infrastructure.
Open [https://app.gapstack.dev/](https://app.gapstack.dev/) and create an account. If you already have one, sign in.
After you sign in, Gapstack asks you to create an organization. This is your company or team in the product. The API calls it a tenant.
1. Enter an **Organization name** you will recognize, such as your company name.
2. Do not include spaces in the name.
3. Click **Create organization**.
If someone already invited you, click **See invitations** instead of creating a new organization.
Next, link the AWS account where Gapstack should provision resources. See [Connect an AWS account](/guides/connect-aws-account) for the full walkthrough.
1. Click **Connect a new account**.
2. Enter an **Account name** you will recognize, such as `Dev`.
3. Click **Open AWS Authorization Page**. Do not change anything on the CloudFormation stack.
4. Select **I acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation might create IAM resources with custom names.**
5. Click **Create stack**.
6. Wait a few minutes, then open [Organization settings](https://app.gapstack.dev/settings/aws-account) and refresh until the status is **Connected**.
You must have **AdministratorAccess** (recommended) or be the root user (not recommended) to create the stack.
Connect GitHub so Gapstack can deploy your artifacts, including Lambda code.
1. Click **Connect to GitHub**.
2. Authorize the Gapstack GitHub App for the account or organization that owns your repositories.
After AWS and GitHub are connected, Gapstack opens the [dashboard](https://app.gapstack.dev/dashboard). The sidebar lists **Dashboard**, **Projects**, **Environments**, **Resources**, and **Workflows**.
1. Click **+ Create a New Project** at the top of the sidebar.
2. Name the project and save it.
A project only groups environments. It does not create a CloudFormation stack. You add environments under the project. Each environment can target its own AWS account or `us-*` region, and that is when Gapstack provisions resources.
You have an organization, a linked AWS account, GitHub connected, and a project on the dashboard.
## Next steps
Create the CloudFormation stack and confirm the account shows as Connected.
Add the GitHub Actions steps that upload Lambda artifacts to the environment S3 bucket.
Call the same workflow from the API: tenants, projects, environments, and AWS accounts.