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1. Install the AWS CLI if necessary (HPC platforms include the CLI in spack-stack).
   1. Mac: from your shell run brew install awscli  or use one of the other recommended install methods 
2. Go to your “My security credentials” page in the AWS console (see step 4 and 5 in Account setup).
   1. Click “Create access key” in the Access Keys panel.
   2. Select the “Command Line Interface (CLI)” use case.
   3. Check the box to acknowledge and disregard the other recommended options and click “Next”
   4. Give a short description like “Key for CLI use” and click “Create”
   5. Save the key ID and the key secret value in a secure location, you will need both in the next step.
3. On the command line configure credentials for for your account using one of the commands listed below. The profile name is important since some of our tools (especially skylab) are sensitive to this profile name when authenticating resources. Use your key ID and secret gathered in step two. Configure the region to be the same as used above. Set your output format to “json”.
   1. To configure jcsda-usaf
      1. aws configure p --rofileprofile=jcsda-usaf-aws-us-east-2 
      2. Access Key ID and secret: see step #2 above
      3. Region: us-east-2 
   2. To configure jcsda-noaa
      1. aws configure --profile=jcsda-noaa-aws-us-east-1
      2. Access Key ID and secret: see step #2 above
      3. Region: us-east-1 

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