Day 1 - Getting started with Amazon¶

We’re going to start by getting you set up on Amazon Web Services. For the duration of the course, we’ll be running analyses on computers we rent from Amazon; this has a number of benefits that we’ll discuss in the lecture.

Start up an EC2 instance
Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Windows version)
- Generate a ppk file from your pem file
- Logging into your EC2 instance with Putty
Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Mac version)
Installing Dropbox on your EC2 machine
Terminating (shutting down) your EC2 instance

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