Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Cloud-based storage in MCS: setting up your S3 or Azure account


For Amazon S3:

1. You need first to set up an account. Go to:
Amazon S3: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

2. Once you are activated, you will receive a confirmation e-mail. Follow the instructions in the e-mail to set up Access Identifiers. Use the Web-based AWS Management Console to try creating a bucket, manually upload a file etc… Click on the Security Credentials menu item (under the menu item bearing your user name).

The two most important information to retrieve from your account are:
  • Your Access Key ID: it is a 20 character-long string
  • Your Secret Key: it is a 40 character-long string

Copy these two values somewhere (on paper, in a text file or in an e-mail) to register later in MScan and MView.


For Microsoft Azure:

1. You need first to set up an account. Go to:
Microsoft Azure: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/
This requires an account name and a password.

Log into the Windows Azure Management Portal.
Click on the NEW button at the bottom of the navigation pane 
Click on DATA SERVICES menu item on the left of the window, then click on STORAGE, QUICK CREATE.
Enter a name for the storage account in the URL input box (e.g., jimtwophotonfiles), select a location for the file repository (e.g., West US) and enable/disable geo-replication.

2. Once the storage account is created

Click on the Manage Access Key button at the bottom of the screen 
The two most important information to retrieve from your account are:
  • Your Storage account name
  • Your Primary Accesst Key

Copy these two values somewhere (on paper, in a text file or in an e-mail) to register later in MScan and MView.

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