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* There's a "[http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Free Tier]" for new customers, providing 5GB of space and 1 year of an EC2 "Micro" instance | * There's a "[http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Free Tier]" for new customers, providing 5GB of space and 1 year of an EC2 "Micro" instance | ||
** A valid credit card and phone number are required | ** A valid credit card and phone number are required | ||
* Download the [http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/astools.html command line tools] (a Java package) | |||
===Authentication=== | |||
* Go to the "Security Credentials" page and acquire your "Access ID" and "Access Key" (~40 byte hashes) | |||
* You can use the access key in three ways: | |||
** Fill in the template values in <tt>credential-file-path.template</tt> from the unpacked command line tools' directory, and export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE pointing to this file | |||
** Reference this same file via --aws-credential-file ''file'' as an argument to all commands | |||
** Provide --I ''ID'' --S ''Key'' as arguments to all commands | |||
* I add the following to .bashrc: | |||
<pre>AWS="$HOME/.aws" | |||
export PATH="$PATH:$AWS/bin" | |||
export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE="$AWS/credential-file-path.template" | |||
unset AWS</pre> | |||
* [http://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ Autoscaling] | * [http://aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ Autoscaling] | ||
Revision as of 10:49, 22 January 2012
AWS offers "fleets" of virtualized machines and various networking infrastructure atop them.
Getting started
- There's a "Free Tier" for new customers, providing 5GB of space and 1 year of an EC2 "Micro" instance
- A valid credit card and phone number are required
- Download the command line tools (a Java package)
Authentication
- Go to the "Security Credentials" page and acquire your "Access ID" and "Access Key" (~40 byte hashes)
- You can use the access key in three ways:
- Fill in the template values in credential-file-path.template from the unpacked command line tools' directory, and export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE pointing to this file
- Reference this same file via --aws-credential-file file as an argument to all commands
- Provide --I ID --S Key as arguments to all commands
- I add the following to .bashrc:
AWS="$HOME/.aws" export PATH="$PATH:$AWS/bin" export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE="$AWS/credential-file-path.template" unset AWS
