i. Summary

During this tutorial you have acquired the basic knowledge on how to build an infrastructure in AWS and in particular how to:

  • Access and use the AWS Console.
  • Use the AWS CLI access and create AWS resources.
  • Create an Amazon EC2 instance.
  • Define a new IAM role and attach it to an Amazon EC2 instance.

You will see that building an HPC system in AWS is not much different that what you have done so far. Simple isn’t it?

In the next section you will learn how to build a HPC cluster using AWS ParallelCluster. Let’s get started.