Create an Amazon Account and set up the local account

To use the Amazon Translate Trados Plugin the first thing you must do is create an AWS account.  Once you have done that you need to configure your account locally and to do this you need to download and install the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface).  You can find more information on how to do this here in the AWS Documentation.

Once you have installed the AWS CLI you can run it by opening a windows command prompt and type in aws configure:

The first time you do this you will be prompted for four pieces of information (this is an example and not anything you should copy and type in!):

All of this information can be found in your own AWS account settings.  It's recommended that you use the documentation provided by Amazon to get this information as they have explained in detail how to set this up here.  They could also change the process so it's better to go back to AWS if you have any problems.

When you have completed all of this you will see something like the following if you run the aws configure command again:

Setting up the Studio plugin

Once you have set up your Amazon account correctly you can activate the plugin for your project.  The steps are as follows:

Adding the provider to your project or default settings

In your Translation Memory and Automated Translation settings (Project Settings or File -> Options) add the provider by selecting it from here:

Adding your Amazon credentials

Authentication

Choose AWS auth type and select the authentication method you intend to use.

Access key / Secret access key

All of these details need to be added or the plugin will fail to work:

Click on OK and the plugin will be added to your settings.  Now you should be able to receive machine translation results from the Amazon Translate service:

Locally configured AWS profile

This method provides a way to easily maintain different profiles based on a configuration saved locally on your computer.  To use this method you simply choose the Local AWS profile option and add the name of your profile in the Locally configured AWS profile field.

In this example we have used a profile called myprofile.  The name of the profile can be whatever you wish and you can create as many as you like.  But to use this you need to set this up in two files that are stored here:

c:\Users\[USERNAME]\.aws\

These files will be created when you install the Command Line Interface and you can add the necessary information manually or by running this command in a command prompt (you would enter the name of your profile, here we used myprofile):

aws configure --profile myprofile

Add the appropriate information when prompted in exactly the same interface as earlier and the configuration files will be updated accordingly.  If you wish to do this manually then the content of the config and credentials files would look something like this:

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