Account Creation

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Introduction

The scope of this manual section is am an introduction on how to get started using the Amazon cloud AWS to quickly create an on-demand cluster private to you.

Login to your Main/Master AWS account

• Click this Link

• Click Sign In

Enter your two-factor authentication code

• Enter Auth code
• Click Sign In

Identity and Access Managemenet (IAM)

• Naviagte to the IAM Page
• Click on Users

Add User

• This is the user managment page
• Click Add user

Account creation wizard

• Create a new account for creating clusters
• Fill out the user name and the access type (Programmatic access should be all that’s needed for users of a lab).
• Click Next: Permissions.

Assign Permissions to the new account

• Permissions are assigned to groups and users are organized into those groups.
• If you do not have any existing groups create an admin group
• Choose what group you would like the new user to below too.
• You can create a new group here also.
• Click Next: Review

Account creation review

• Review account choices before creation
• Click Create user.

Account creation complete.

• The account has been created and here are the credentials
• Ensure you click on Download.csv! (this contains the Access key ID and Secret key for this account and is needed later)
• Save this file.
• Click on Close.

Naviagte to the AWS EC2 Console

• Click this Link
• Click Key Pairs

Key Pair management page

• Click Create Key Pair

Name new Key Pair

• Give it a name representing the new user.
• Click Create
• You will be prompted to save the new key file. Note where you save this file.

Send credentials and key file to the new user

• Send an email to the new user with the credentials file and the key file attached.
• Any other private form of file transfer can also be used to distribute the files to the new user.

You now have all the information needed for a user to create their own cluster.

Next step: Setup and create a new cluster.