Yes , all users have been allotted a private key , this error is after ssh-add ( private key), From: Dannon Baker <dannon.baker@gmail.com<mailto:dannon.baker@gmail.com>> Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:15 AM To: System Administrator <msapre@nmdp.org<mailto:msapre@nmdp.org>> Cc: "galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu<mailto:galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu>" <galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu<mailto:galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu>>, David Roe <droe@NMDP.ORG<mailto:droe@NMDP.ORG>> Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] cloning Galaxy cluster on cloud Amazon EC2 Whoever your organization administrator is will need to either create those keys for you, or allow your IAM user access to them. Are you able to contact the person that administers your account? On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Manisha Sapre <msapre@nmdp.org<mailto:msapre@nmdp.org>> wrote: Good Morning Dannon we have paid amazon service, I log into EC2 using organization credentials, but get that screen ( below) while trying to identify account text string in AWS console section Launching a cloud instance of galaxy would require this account text string