Installing Hyperledger Sawtooth

This recipe will show you how to communicate with Amazon AWS using PuTTy, how to install and launch the Hyperledger Sawtooth network, and how to set up Python for developing Sawtooth applications on AWS. We will also use the Sawtooth command line to test and verify the installed Sawtooth network on AWS.

Getting ready

To set up PuTTy and Python on AWS, perform the following:

1. Install PuTTy (from https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) on your Windows desktop and convert the private key generated by Amazon EC2 into a putty key file using PuTTygen, following the guide that can be found at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html.
2. In PuTTygen, load the EC2 key...