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Merge pull request #1974 from kencochrane/improve_aws_docs

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Improved the AWS docs
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# Using LinuxKit on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
This is a quick guide to run LinuxKit on AWS.
This is a quick guide to run LinuxKit on AWS.
## Setup
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Alternatively, you can use the `AWS_BUCKET` environment variable to specify the bucket name.
**Note:** If the push times out before it finishes, you can use the `-timeout` flag to extend the timeout.
```
linuxkit push aws -bucket bucketname -timeout 1200 aws.img
```
## Create an instance and connect to it
With the image created, we can now create an instance.

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`/var/config/ssh/authorized_keys` from metadata. In the future we'll
add more complete SSH support.
GCP userdata is extracted from `/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/userdata`.
GCP userdata is extracted from `/computeMetadata/v1/instance/attributes/userdata`
and made available in `/var/config/userdata`.
## AWS
AWS metadata is reached via the following URL
(`http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/`) and currently we extract the
hostname and populate the `/var/config/ssh/authorized_keys` from metadata.
AWS userdata is extracted from `http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data` and
and made available in `/var/config/userdata`.
## HyperKit