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Amazon AWS
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This procedure describes how to create a new `Amazon AWS <http://aws.amazon.com/>`_ virtual machine with Anaconda. To add Anaconda to an existing AWS virtual machine using the command line, see :doc:`Linux installation <../../../install/linux>`.

To create a new Amazon AWS:

#. Create an `Amazon EC2 instance <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/get-set-up-for-amazon-ec2.html>`_. EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is Amazon's virtualization service.

#. Open your `EC2 console <https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/>`_ and click the Launch instance button.

#. On the Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page, select Community AMIs:

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#. Search the Community Amazon Machine Images for the Anaconda or Miniconda AMI.

#. On the search results page, click the Select button:

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#. To be sure that you are using an official Continuum Analytics\ |reg| image, verify its AMI ID by matching it against the :ref:`official list of Continuum Analytics images <ca-images>`.

#. Install your AMI with Amazon's `Launch an EC2 Instance <http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-launch-instance_linux.html>`_ instructions.

.. _ca-images:

Official Continuum Analytics images
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.. |reg| unicode:: U+000AE .. REGISTERED SIGN
