Create AWS Account and the access keys

1. Open and Sign up at AWS (http://aws.amazon.com/), That is, create your AWS account
2. When you sign up, you need to enter your card number and telephone verification.

Note: if this your first time to have the account, you will have the free account for 1 year.

3. Go to http://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/ and enter your promotion code that the instructor gives you ($100 amount)

note: if your usage is over $100, AWS will charge you at your credit card. Thus, after using it, terminate any server. And, the promotion usage disable the free account option - not sure.

4. Click “Products & Services” or go to http://aws.amazon.com/products/
5. Click “Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) ” at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
6. In the right top, click on “Security Credentials”, https://portal.aws.amazon.com/gp/aws/securityCredentials, to create your AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY for remote connection from your local computer to AWS.
7. At Access Credentials, click the tab “Access Keys” and create AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID. Then, right next to the key, you can see “secret access key” as AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and click on “show”.