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The list of prerequisites for the deployment of Cloud VMS on AWS:

  1. Access to AWS account (admin level Access Key and Secret Key, or Username and Password).

  2. AWS region (e.g. us-east-1, us-east-2, eu-central, etc.).

1. Access to AWS account

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Sometimes, there is a need to limit the access of this administrator account to certain resources running in AWS, in this case, please follow this guide - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/ug/setting-up-restricted-admin.html

Creating Access Key and Secret Key

Go to IAM->Users and click “Add user”. Give it a name, for example, “VXG”:

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Select “Attach policies directly” and check “AdministratorAccess”

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After the user has been created, select this user from the IAM->Users list

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Go to the “Security credentials” tab and click on “Create access key”

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Select “Command linked interface (CLI)”

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Copy the Access Key and Secret Key from the last page

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Important, the “Secret key” is only available on this page and can’t be retrieved later. You can also download the keys.

2. AWS

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Region

Please let us know which AWS Region we should use for deployment - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-regions-availability-zones.html