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JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dduracloud.bridge.root.username=<your username> -Dduracloud.bridge.root.password=<your password> -Dduracloud.bridge.root.email=<your email> -Dduracloud.bridge.root.dir=<your root dir>"

Create a System environment variable to allow the AWS client to know your preferred region 

export AWS_REGION=us-east-1

Build and deploy the source

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<duracloud.bridge.root.dir>/duracloud-bridge-init.dat. This encrypted file contains the credentials you used to initialize the app. It will be read as soon as tomcat starts up in order to allow the service to start up without needing further intialization (as in the case of, for example, an unexpected server restart).