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AWS Ground Station User Guide Table of Contents What Is AWS Ground Station? ............................................................................................................. 1 How AWS Ground Station Works .......................................................................................................... 2 Data Delivery to Amazon S3 ........................................................................................................ 2 Data Delivery to Amazon EC2 ...................................................................................................... 2 More Information ....................................................................................................................... 3 Service Terms ............................................................................................................................ 3 Core Components ...................................................................................................................... 3 Dataflow Endpoint Groups .................................................................................................. 4 Configs ............................................................................................................................. 4 Mission Profiles .................................................................................................................. 9 Setting Up AWS Ground Station ......................................................................................................... 10 Step 1: Sign Up for AWS ........................................................................................................... 10 Step 2: Add Permissions to Your AWS Account ............................................................................. 10 Step 3: Customer Onboarding .................................................................................................... 11 Next Steps ............................................................................................................................... 12 Getting Started ................................................................................................................................ 13 Basic Concepts ......................................................................................................................... 13 Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................ 13 Step 1: Choose an AWS CloudFormation Template ....................................................................... 13 Preconfigured Templates ................................................................................................... 13 Building your own template .............................................................................................. 15 Step 2: Configure an AWS CloudFormation Stack ......................................................................... 15 Listing and Reserving Contacts .......................................................................................................... 17 Using the Ground Station Console .............................................................................................. 17 Reserve a Contact ............................................................................................................ 17 View Scheduled and Completed Contacts ............................................................................ 19 Cancelling Contacts .......................................................................................................... 20 Reserving and Managing Contacts with AWS CLI .......................................................................... 21 View and List Contacts with AWS CLI .................................................................................. 21 Reserve a Contact with AWS CLI ........................................................................................ 22 Cancel a Contact with AWS CLI .......................................................................................... 23 Data Delivery to Amazon EC2 ............................................................................................................ 24 Step 1: Create EC2 SSH Key Pair ................................................................................................ 24 Step 2: Set Up Your VPC ........................................................................................................... 25 Step 3: Choose and Customize an AWS CloudFormation Template .................................................. 26 Configuring your Amazon EC2 Instance Settings ................................................................... 26 Manually Creating and Configuring Resources ...................................................................... 27 Choose a Template ........................................................................................................... 27 Step 4: Configure an AWS CloudFormation Stack ......................................................................... 31 Step 5: Install and Configure FE Processor/Radio .......................................................................... 32 (Optional) Install and Configure Data Defender Manually .............................................................. 33 Step 1: SSH Into Your EC2 Instance .................................................................................... 33 Step 2: Install Data Defender Dependencies Using YUM ........................................................ 33 Step 3: Download the Data Defender Files .......................................................................... 34 Step 4: Install Data Defender ............................................................................................. 34 Step 5: Configure Data Defender ........................................................................................ 35 Step 6: Configure the Data Defender Streams ...................................................................... 36 Next Steps ............................................................................................................................... 41 Using Cross-Region Data Delivery ....................................................................................................... 42 To use cross-region data delivery in the console ........................................................................... 42 To use cross-region data delivery with AWS CLI ............................................................................ 43 Ground Stations Located Outside of AWS Regions ................................................................................ 44 Example Ground Station Located Outside of an AWS Region .......................................................... 44 Monitoring AWS Ground Station ........................................................................................................ 45 iii AWS Ground Station User Guide Automating with CloudWatch Events .......................................................................................... 45 Example CloudWatch Events .............................................................................................. 46 Logging API Calls with CloudTrail ............................................................................................... 47 AWS Ground Station Information in CloudTrail ..................................................................... 47 Understanding AWS Ground Station Log File Entries ............................................................. 48 Metrics with Amazon CloudWatch .............................................................................................. 49 AWS Ground Station Metrics and Dimensions ....................................................................... 49 Viewing Metrics ................................................................................................................ 50 Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................... 53 Troubleshooting Contacts that Deliver Data to Amazon EC2 ........................................................... 53 Step 1: Verify that Your EC2 Instance is Running .................................................................. 53 Step 2: Verify that Data Defender is Running ....................................................................... 53 Step 3: Verify that Your Data Defender Stream is Configured ................................................. 54 Security ........................................................................................................................................... 57 Authentication and Access Control ............................................................................................. 57 Audience ........................................................................................................................