Cloud Nonce Discovery (CND) deployment in AWS

Deployment Process

1. Download user credentials from Educate and configure in .aws/ folder via CLI (~/.aws/credentials for keys and ~/.aws/config for region)
2. Create Key Pair (In code it's named "cloud")
3. Create Custom AMI Image:
   • Launch new EC2 instance (Linux2 AMI x86)
   • SSH into machine ssh -i "cloud.pem" [email protected]
   • Run sudo yum install python3.x86_64 (see sudo yum list | grep python3 for all py3 versions)
   • Run pip3 install boto3 awscli --user
   • in case pip is not installed, run curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py and then python3 get-pip.py --user
   • validate install (python3 --version; pip3 --version)
   • exit VM
   • scp nonce.py and .aws folder on machine (scp -r -i "cloud.pem" ./.aws [email protected]:~)
   • In AWS web, click on instance -> Image -> Create New Image
   • Use new custom AMI in script.py file when launching new instances
4. Run script.py:
   • gnuOptions = ["runtime=", "block=", "confidence=", "numberofmachines=", "difficulty=", "price="]
   • e.g python3 script.py -n 4 -d 25
5. Run stop.py in order to stop all instances in a clean fashion (if needed as an extension)