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- Log onto the AWS console using the platform@sagebase.org account
- Select the instance named "Windows Image For R Client Builds"
- Pull down "instance actions" and choose "start"
- Wait a couple minutes and the public DNS name will be available on the AWS console
- Connect using Remote Desktop
- Mac installer http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client
- username: Administrator
- password: you can find it in file
sodo:/work/platform/PasswordsAndCredentials/PlatformAWSCredentials/i-361d9b59.windowsPassword
- use the machine for a while
- Go back to the AWS console and "stop" (not "terminate") the host