Use ssh to login your server

ssh ec2-50-16-140-25.compute-1.amazonaws.com

Let's ROck with Cassandra on AWS EC2

1. Get your free account on AWS.
2. Start your EC2 service with a phone callback verification.
3. Start some other services, such as EBS service.
4. Start an EC2 instance with a selected Community EBS image. (select t1.micro for free).

1. Download AWS API Tools from http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/AWS-Identity-and-Access-Management/4143

2. export AWS_IAM_HOME=/home/ming/aws/ec2-api-tools-1.3-62308
3. edit your account-key with

AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJF2FTOVIKxxx
AWSSecretKey=RcxCU6j9frycCK7uXFIneWZ/z5y+Tgxxxxxxxx


4. check you Instance site on https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home?region=us-east-1


5. to create a user namded ming.

ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ ls
account-key ec2-api-tools-1.3-62308/ IAMCli-1.2.0/
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ vi myconfig.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-groupcreate -g Admins
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-grouplistbypath
arn:aws:iam::396767937xxx:group/Admins
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ vi MyPolicy.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-groupuploadpolicy -g Admins -p AdminsGroupPolicy -f MyPolicy.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-grouplistpolicies -g Admins
AdminsGroupPolicy
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-usercreate -u ming -g Admins -k -v
AKIAIKFT5QD7IVQY6xxx
As2ECyKAKddPEpaZwyHrr42F9qyXITcSiPBF3xxx
arn:aws:iam::396767937xxx:user/ming
AIDAJOPZGYSBZ2DYGGxxx
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-grouplistusers -g Admins
arn:aws:iam::396767937xxx:user/ming
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ vi ming_cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ pwd
/home/ming/aws
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=/home/ming/aws/ming-cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ !v
vi ming_cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ !v
vi ming_cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-userlistkeys -u ming
Could not load AWS Credential file. Make sure that the environment variable AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE or command line argument --aws-credential-file is set to a file containing AWS Credentials in the following format. Enter the AWS keys without the < or >
AWSAccessKeyId=
AWSSecretKey=
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ !v
vi ming_cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=/home/ming/aws/ming_cred.txt
ming@ming-desktop:~/aws$ iam-userlistkeys -u ming
AKIAIKFT5QD7IVQY6G4A
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