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-## Create and configure the storage backend in Amazon's Cloud
-
-#### Getting started
-- Checkout bigchaindb and copy bigchain-deployment to bigchaindb repository
-
-#### Prerequesites
- - Valid AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY is needed, both are exported as variables to the shell
- - awscli - DO WE EVEN USE THIS?
- - boto - DEPENDENCY BEING REMOVED
- - boto3 (Python 2 or 3)
- - fabric w/ fabtools (Python 2 only)
-
-#### Cluster Installation
- - Got to the DEPLOY-directory and run './startup.sh' with two parameters (tag and number of nodes)...that's it!
-        e.g.: ./startup.sh bro 7 to install a cluster tagged as bro with seven nodes.
-
-#### If an error occurs...
-There are some issues during the rollout on Amazon (presumably also in other cloud/virtual environments): if you tested with a high sequence it might be possible, that you run into:
- - NetworkError: Host key for ec2-xx-xx-xx-xx.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com did not match pre-existing key! Server's key was changed recently, or possible man-in-the-middle attack.
-If so, just clean up your known_hosts file and start again.