Go to AWS Marketplace and Manage subscriptions page then click Launch new Instance. Provide name of the Instance and click Launch instance. Once EC2 is in available status, SSH into the instance using EC2-USER. Once logged in, do ls -ltrh and confirm you have the software directory like this:. [ec2-user@ip-172-31-13-104 ~]$ [ec2-user@ip-172-31-13-104 ~]$ ls -ltrh total 1.9M drwxrwxr-x 2 ec2-user ec2-user 34 Aug 4 23:11 software [ec2-user@ip-172-31-13-104 ~]$ Run the following command to setup the replication user and appropriate permissions on the package required for replication. sudo /opt/precisely/di/sqdata/bin/sqdservice --init The above will create a replication user named connect and apply permissions of this user to the replication binaries accordingly. Once created, change the password of this user to a password of your choice using the following command: sudo su - echo -e "<<YOUR_PASSWORD>>\n<<YOUR_PASSWORD>>" | passwd connect Once password has been changed, save that password for your records. Login as connect user:\ sudo su - connect