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From: Thomas Wiest <twiest@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 11:03:14 -0400
Subject: doc update

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+AWS Setup Instructions
+======================
+
+Get AWS API credentials
+-----------------------
+1. [AWS credentials documentation](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSGettingStartedGuide/AWSCredentials.html)
+
+
+Create a credentials file
+-------------------------
+1. Create a credentials file (eg ~/.aws_creds) that looks something like this (variables must have have these exact names).
+```
+   export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='AKIASTUFF'
+   export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='STUFF'
+```
+
+1. source this file
+```
+  source ~/.aws_creds
+```
+
+1. Note: You must source this file in each shell that you want to run cloud.rb
+
+
+Install Dependencies
+--------------------
+1. Ansible requires python-boto for aws operations:
+```
+  yum install -y ansible python-boto
+```
+
+
+Test The Setup
+--------------
+1. cd openshift-online-ansible
+1. Try to list all instances:
+```
+  ./cloud.rb aws list
+```
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