Tor has an account on Amazon EC2 and can grant its developers access to that account to crunch some Tor descriptors, run a simulation, or perform other tasks that laptops were not meant to do and that real servers would be too cumbersome to set up.
== Getting started ==
## Getting started
If you are a Tor developer and would like to use EC2, you should follow these steps:
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- Try not to spend more than $30 per month on EC2, or ask your team lead for permission first. If you need a virtual machine for running a service, you should instead ask the sysadmins to create one for you.
- Watch out for unused resources you requested and shut them down as early as possible.
1. Request credentials from [mailto:karsten@torproject.org Karsten] by email. Please include a description what you'd want to do on EC2. Karsten may need to get approval for creating your account, so this may take a few days. Fortunately, you only need to do this once.
1. Once you have user credentials, [https://torproject.signin.aws.amazon.com/console log into AWS] and change your password. You now have access to Tor's EC2 account.
1. Once you have user credentials, [log into AWS](https://torproject.signin.aws.amazon.com/console) and change your password. You now have access to Tor's EC2 account.
== Create SSH key pairs ==
## Create SSH key pairs
First thing to do once you've logged in is to create/add an SSH key. Once you've selected a location, do the following:
