Create Amazon EC2 API key

Amazon AWS manages its user credentials with the IAM service. You need to create a user, save its keys and apply the correct user policies for that user to interact with the Amazon AWS services.

1. Log on your Amazon account

2. Click on the IAM service

   

3. Click on the Users item in the left menu

   

4. Click on Create and enter a user (devo.ps for example)

   

   Upon Save, you will be presented with your access key and secret key, beware you must write them down now as they won't be displayed to you anymore in the future. If you don't save those information, you will have to re-create a user.

5. You are now presented with the current user, click on the Attach user policy to set permissions

   

   By default a new user created on IAM does not have any access or permissions. You must set the user policy to grant that user the right to interact with the EC2 service.

6. To simplify your life, use the templated rules, and select Amazon EC2 Full Access and apply the policy.

   

   You can select other templates if you know what you are doing. The only requirement being that devo.ps will be creating instances on your behalf and need write access for the EC2 service. You may want to add other policies like S3 if you plan on using S3 service.

7. You will then be presented with a text version of the policies, finally click Apply Policy.

   

8. Go in your devo.ps profile

   Click on Add a Cloud Provider, select Amazon EC2 and enter the keys created in the previous step.