[cs615asa] Some questions about env setup and X.509 certificate

[zding4]

That make a lot of sense, thank you very much, I will try to install the 
aws tools on my own computer.

Sincerely,
Zhizhuo
在 01/29/2015 9:16 PM，hchen29 写道：
> On 01/29/2015 7:38 PM, zding4 wrote:
>> Hi everyone and professor,
>> 
>> I follow the documentation of AWS
>> CLI(http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-set-up.html), and I already launch my OmniOS instance.
>> But I found I didn't do anything like changing to your shell's startup
>> files, environment variables and X.509 certificate.
>> Do I miss something or it's automatically done when I run $ aws 
>> configure?
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> Zhizhuo
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> 
> Hello Zhizhuo,
> If you use the linux-lab to do these work, you do not need to do
> preperations. The aws tools have been installed on the linux-lab
> system. That's the reason why you do not need to configure the
> environment variables. But if you do that on your personal computer,
> you should follow those steps. The certificate and the private key, I
> think, are used to make sure you are the person who is allowed to use
> the AWS service. If you do not have the certification, you cannot use
> Amazon Web Service; in specific, you cannot use "aws" command to
> deploy your instances. The aws configure asks you to enter your access
> key, that does the same work.
> Those are my personal opinions. If there are something wrong, please
> correct it. Thanks!
> 
> Hanxiong Chen
> 
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