To get your Amazon AWS credentials, please follow these steps:
- Login to Amazon AWS console:
- Select the option 'Security Credentials' from the dropdown menu under your login name
- Click the link 'Access Credentials'
- Select the tab 'Access Keys'
- Click the link 'Create a new Access Key' (if you don't already have one)
- Click 'Yes' to confirm
- Retrieve your Access Key
- Click the button 'Show' to retrieve your Secret Access Key
- Select the tab 'Key Pairs'
- Scroll down to the section 'Amazon EC2 Key Pairs' (WARNING: this is NOT the Amazon CloudFront Key Pairs)
- Click the link 'Access your Amazon EC2 Key Pairs...'
- Make sure the Region selected is US-East (Virginia) at the top of the left nav bar
- Click the link 'Key Pairs' on the left nav bar
- Click the button 'Create Key Pair' (if you want to create a new one)
- Enter a Name and click 'Create'
- Click 'Save' to download your key pair file .pem to your local computer
- (next 3 steps are optional)
- Click the link 'Security Group' on the left nav bar
- Click the button "'Create Security Group' (if you want to creatre a new one)
- Enter a Name, Description and click 'Yes, Create'
Use your Access Key, Secret Access Key, Security Group and Key Pair file .pem to create an Amazon AWS service account in Cloud Manager.
