Prerequisites

To run Amazon Genomics CLI the following prerequisites must be met:

• A computer with one of the following operating systems:
  • macOS 10.14+
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • Windows 10 with a Windows subsystem running Ubuntu which runs the commands
• Internet access
• An AWS Account
• An AWS role with sufficient access. To generate the minimum required policies for admins and users, please follow the instructions here

Running Amazon Genomics CLI on Windows has not been tested, but it should run in WSL 2 with Ubuntu 20.04

Prerequisite installation

Ubuntu 20.04

• Install node.js

curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_15.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

• Install and configure AWS CLI

sudo apt install awscli
aws configure
# ... set access key ID, secret access key, and region

Amazon Linux 2 (e.g. on an EC2 instance)

• Install node

curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo yum install -y nodejs

• If you have not already done so, configure your AWS credentials and default region

aws configure

MacOS

• Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

• Install node

brew install node

• Install and configure AWS CLI

brew install awscli
aws configure
# ... set access key ID, secret access key, and region