Start a System

• Head over to the CloudFormation console page at AWS.
• Click "Create Stack"

The template to be used depends on your needs, but it is highly recommended to use the most current version.

• Go to the Release History.
• Click the file icon of the Storage version you'd like.
  • This copies the template URL to your clipboard in most modern browsers.
• Return to the AWS "Select Template" screen and paste the template URL under Specify an Amazon S3 Template URL.
• Click "Next"

Fill in the template's parameter values as specified below.

Stack Name

Choose a good name for your system. Use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. ASCII characters only. Your system name gets concatenated in various contexts and so should be kept short, e.g. fewer than 24 characters.

• Remember this Stack Name for later use.

Reuse existing storage

Set this to "False".

This CloudFormation Template creates a VPC in which to run Datomic Cloud. Configure the settings for the VPC in the VPC Configuration section. See the AWS VPC Guide for details on specifying the CIDR blocks. Unless you know you need to change the CIDR block settings, you should accept the default configuration.

VPC CIDR block

The CIDR block to assign to the VPC. Accept the defaults.

First, Second, and Third CIDR Blocks.

Datomic will configure three subnets in the VPC. These three CIDR Blocks must be subsets of the VPC CIDR Block, and they must not overlap with each other. Accept the defaults.

Click the Next button.

The template to be used depends on your needs, but it is highly recommended to use the most current version.

• Go to the Release History.
• Click the file icon of either "Solo" or "Production", depending on what your needs are.
  • This copies the template URL to your clipboard in most modern browsers.
• Return to the AWS "Select Template" screen and paste the template URL under Specify an Amazon S3 Template URL.
• Click "Next"

Fill in the template's parameter values as specified below.

Stack Name

Choose a name for your system. Use only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. ASCII characters only. Your system name gets concatenated in various contexts and so should be kept short, e.g. fewer than 24 characters.

• This must be different from the storage stack name.

System Name

Set this to the Storage Stack "Stack Name" that you created in the previous step.

AWS EC2 Key Pair

The key pair to assign to compute nodes. Select a key pair for ssh access to nodes and the access gateway.

Application Name

Leave this blank to create an application with the same name as the system.

Environment Map

Ion environment map. Set to {:env :dev} for now.

Preload Database

All compute group instances will load this database when they start.

Access Gateway Instance Type

Choose 'nano' to allow only Client API through the access gateway. Choose an instance type larger than 'nano' to enable both the Client API and analytics support.

Analytics Endpoint

Provide the name of the query group you would like all analytics queries to be routed to. Defaults to system name (primary compute group).

Existing IAM managed policy for instance

Utilize an existing IAM managed policy for this compute instance.