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Prerequisites

See the Zend Server AMI User Guide, available from the Zend Server on Amazon EC2 Forum, for more information on the Amazon AWS Toolkit for Zend Studio prerequisites and getting started with your Zend Server AMI.

Before meeting the prerequisites you must install the Amazon AWS Toolkit plugin.

The prerequisites for Amazon AWS Toolkit for Zend Studio are:

Create the following accounts:

An Amazon Web Services account (http://aws.amazon.com/)
All the information you will need in order to create an Amazon EC2 account and understand how to work with the Amazon EC2 web service can be found in Amazon’s Getting Started Guide.
After opening an account with Amazon AWS you will receive the following credentials:

An Access Key ID
A Secret Key ID

A Zend Account

Purchase and Activate Your Zend Server AMI - For more information see the Zend Server AMI User Guide, available from the Zend Server on Amazon EC2 Forum.
Adding an SSH Security Group for your Zend Server AMI - Configuring Security Groups for your Zend Server AMI allows you to specify which connection methods can communicate with your Amazon EC2 Instance.
You can also add a new Security Group from inside of Zend Studio.
Create a Key Pair and launch your Zend Server AMI
It is also possible to create a Private Key and launch your Zend Server Instance from inside of Zend Studio.

Once you have met all of the prerequisites you can set up your Zend Server Amazon EC2 Instance.

For more information on Amazon AWS Toolkit for Zend Studio see the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse User Guide by going to Help | Help Contents | AWS Toolkit for Eclipse User Guide or see the AWS Forums.