2. Setup AWS Account

Steps to setup the AWS account for deployment

Overview

Follow the details below to set up your AWS account before you proceed with the DIGIT deployment.

Get AWS Access

Public Users

• Sign up for the AWS account if you do not already have one. Use this link to get started

• Assign Administrator Access to the IAM user for necessary permissions.

• Use the AWS IAM User credentials provided for the Terraform (Infra-as-code) to connect with your AWS account and provision the cloud resources.

• The system will generate a Secret Access Key and Access Key ID. Save the keys.

• Open the terminal. Run the following command you have installed on the AWS CLI, and use the credentials. (Provide the credentials and leave the region and output format blank).

Note: Make sure the profile name provided in the commands below is also used in the Terraform scripts same as the AWS profile.

aws configure --profile digit-quickstart-poc 

AWS Access Key ID []:<Your access key>
AWS Secret Access Key []:<Your secret key>
Default region name []: <region>
Default output format []: text

// Setting profile
export AWS_PROFILE=digit-quickstart-poc

• The above will create the following file on your machine under the user's home directory. /path/to/user/home/.aws/credentials

[digit-quickstart-poc] 
aws_access_key_id=*********** 
aws_secret_access_key=*************************

Once the command line access is configured, everything is set to proceed with Terraform to provision the DIGIT Infra-as-code.