Amazon Web Services

Install AWS CLI and setup authentication

Make sure you have installed pip (see the section above).

Follow instructions at http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ or run the following command (omit the 'sudo' on Windows)

  sudo pip install awscli

Navigate to the AWS console to create access credentials: https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ On the console click on your name (top left) Click on "Security Credentials" * Click on "Access Keys", the create New Access Key. Download the file, it contains the Access key and Secret keys to access services. Note the values and delete the file.

Configure the CLI using the keys from the previous step

  aws configure

Running a Single Benchmark

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Example run on AWS

  python pkb.py --cloud=AWS --benchmarks=iperf --machine_type=t1.micro