Using AWS to Access Public Datasets

SPARC datasets can be very large and because of this, we provide direct access to those datasets through Amazon's Web Services (AWS). This series of tutorials walk users through the process of setting up an AWS account and accessing SPARC datasets.

AWS Tutorial Part 1: About AWS and why it is used for SPARC Datasets over 5GB

AWS Tutorial Part 2: How to get an AWS Account

AWS Tutorial Part 3: How to install the AWS Command Line Interface

Learn how to Install the AWS Command Line Interface to allow you to interact with data on the AWS cloud from your local machine. Installing the client will allow you to log into you AWS account and send requests to AWS to download data.

AWS Tutorial Part 4: How to download or transfer with the AWS Command Line Interface

In this final AWS Tutorial, we walk you through the steps of downloading or copy a SPARC dataset to an AWS S3 Bucket through the Amazon Command Line Interface. It assumes you previously have setup your AWS account (Tutorial 2) and have the CLI installed on your machine (Tutorial 3).