configure_s3.md

Table of contents (steps)
1. Create an AWS account
2. Generate SSH keys
3. Create S3 credential
4. Request access to Amazon EC2 F1 instances
5. Create an AMI instance
6. Configure S3 bucket
7. Setup development environment
8. Simulate the design
9. Build the hardware design
10. Generate the AFI
11. Program the FPGA
12. Compile the runtime of the design
13. Bookkeping the AFI

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6. Configure s3 bucket

S3 bucket is needed for storing and generating the Amazon FPGA Image or AMI.

Steps:

1. Connect to your instance via ssh
2. Run aws configure
3. Answer the questions

AWS Access Key ID [None]: <your access key>
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <your secret key>
Default region name [None]: <your AWS region, for instance us-west-2 for Oregon>
Default output format [None]: json

1. Create a s3 bucket for your design aws s3 mb s3://<your-bucket-name>
2. Test if the bucket was setup correctly:
   • Create a file touch one-file.txt
   • Copy file to s3 bucket aws s3 cp one-file.txt s3://<your-bucket-name>
   • List files in the s3 bucket aws s3 ls s3://<your-bucket-name>
   • Remove file aws s3 rm s3://<your-bucket-name>/one-file.txt