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Log into the AWS console: https://325565585839.signin.aws.amazon.com/console/ec2Ask Nicole for your username and password.

First time accessing the console

1. Get your IAM credentials from Nicole
2. Either
   • Tell Nicole what password you want
   • Or set your password yourself
     1. Install the IAM tools on your machine http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/IAM/latest/GettingStartedGuide/index.html?GetTools.html
     2. Create a password for yourself (there is currently no way to change your password via the console UI) iam-useraddloginprofile -u YOU -p aDecentPassword

How To

Upload a dataset to S3

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BucketExplorer is very efficient, and will do hash comparisons and only transfer what files have changed. One can also get a visual comparison of what files have changed using the 'Comparer' button. During the transfer, the program will parallelize the transfer into 20 streams for very efficient use of outgoing bandwidth to the cloud.

Create a new IAM group

TODO deflaux: talk about Sage-specific stuff such as where we want to check in our policy files to SVN for each groupWe are storing our access policies here: http://sagebionetworks.jira.com/source/browse/PLFM/trunk/configuration/awsIamPolicies

See the IAM documentation for more details about how to do this but its basically:

iam-groupcreate -g ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataUsers
iam-groupuploadpolicy -g ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataUsers -p ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataPolicy -f ~/platform/trunk/configuration/awsIamPolicies/ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataPolicy.txt
iam-groupadduser -u test -g ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataUsers 
iam-grouplistusers -g ReadOnlyUnrestrictedDataUsers

Create a new user and add them to IAM groups

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