1. You’ll need an AWS account. You can create one beforehand, or during the setup process. You’ll need to provide payment details.

2. In the Salt app, Visit the Robo Guardians section and choose Self Custody.

   Currently, AWS Cloud Hosting and Nitro Enclaves are available.

   • Cloud Hosting: Low cost, easy to set up infrastructure
   • Nitro Enclaves: Isolated compute environments to further protect your robo guardians

   

3. In the Salt app, click on the Follow AWS cloudformation quick setup link. You will be taken to the setup process on AWS. This will open in a new tab.

   • If you’re not logged in/don’t have an account, you’ll be prompted to do that.

     

4. In AWS, create a name for your stack, or use the pre-filled name based on your Organisation name. If there’s a space in the name, delete or replace it.

   • This name will be visible as the name of your Robo Guardians container in Salt.

   • The rest of the stack’s configuration can be left as-is.

     

5. Click the box to acknowledge that AWS CloudFormation may create IAM resources.

Then, click Create Stack. The robo guardians may need a few minutes to be created.

![aws-create-stack.png](attachment:9f5bbcaa-6a6e-4446-a72a-0f0e086e200d:aws-create-stack.png)

6. Navigate back to the Salt app to see your Robo Guardians’ progress.
   • The Robo Guardian container creation takes 5-10 minutes.
7. Once your Robo Guardians are set up, you’ll need to send them some assets to pay for gas.