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🚴 Getting Started

Create an AWS Account

  1. Navigate to https://aws.amazon.com/, and then click Create an AWS Account. If you already have an account, feel free to continue to the next section.
  2. Follow along with the signup wizard.

Select a Region

This guide uses services that are only available in certain AWS regions. As of this writing, you will need to make sure you're in one the of four Amazon regions described below.

  1. In the AWS Management Console, click Services, and then click EC2.
  2. In the region dropdown in the top right corner, select either N. Virginia (least expensive), Oregon, Ireland, or Sydney. Be sure to remain in this region for the remainder of this guide.

Generate an SSH Keypair

  1. In the AWS Management Console, click Services and then click EC2.
  2. In the left pane, under Network & Security, click Key Pairs.
  3. Click Create Key Pair.
  4. When the "Create Key Pair" dialog appears, enter your username for the Key pair name field and click Create.
  5. When the Save As dialog appears, save the .pem keyfile to a safe place. This file will be referred to in later chapters. IMPORTANT: This will only be available once for download and is needed for future systems access.

Launch your Cloud

  1. Click the region link below that corresponds to the region you created your keypair in:

  2. Click Next, and configure your stack on this page.

    • For DocumentStorage, enter the size of your patient documents database in gigabytes.
    • For EC2KeyPair, select the key pair you created in the last section.
    • For PatientRecords, enter the size of your patient records database in gigabytes.
    • For RDSPassword, enter a strong password and note it in a safe place. Note that this is the administrator's password to the MySQL database.
    • For TimeZone, select the appropriate value from this list. Note that this value must be exact and spaces should not be entered (e.g.: America/New_York is valid while America/New York is not).

  3. Click Next, then Next again.

  4. Checkbox the acknowledgement at the bottom of the page.

  5. Click Create and wait around 15-30 minutes for your OpenEMR cloud to be installed. Note that you can proceed to the next section while this install is in progress.

Secure your Account

  1. In the AWS Management Console, click Services and then click IAM.
  2. In the left pane, click Dashboard, and store the IAM users sign-in link in a safe place.
  3. In the left pane, click Users.
  4. Click Add user to the top.
  5. Under Set user details, enter your username in the User name field.
  6. Under Select AWS access type, checkbox only AWS Management Console access in the Access type area.
  7. Click Next: Permissions.
  8. Under Set permissions for ..., click the Attach existing policies directly box.
  9. With the table at the bottom of the page in view, select AdministratorAccess (will be the first row).
  10. Click Next: Review.
  11. Under Review, ensure all information reflects the above steps.
  12. Click Next: Create user.
  13. Log out of the AWS console, go to the sign-in link you noted in step 2, and log in with your new credentials.