Create EC2 Instance

In this post, we will learn to create an EC2 Instance.

1. Signup/Login to the console. Follow this link

2. On the search bar search ec2 and click on the 1st option or URL with text ec2 i.e ec2

3. Click on the red colored rectangle mentioned below

   

4. Click on the Launch Instance

1. Fill the details

• Name -> any name of the instance of your wish.

  

• OS Image -> the OS you want for your remote server.

  • recommended: ubuntu

• Instance type -> This includes the combinations of CPU, storage, memory, networking capacity.

  • You choose as per your requirements.

  • recommended: t2.micro as this is included in the free tire

• Key Pair login

  • This will be used for you to login in your aws instance

  • Create a new one or choose existing

  • Creating new key pair

    • Click on Create new

    • Give any name and leave the rest unchanged and then click on the create key pair. Download it to any location

    • Once the above steps are done, click on the reload icon

    • Then, choose the key from the dropdown

  • User existing one

    • click on the reload icon

    • Then, choose the key from the dropdown

• Leave rest as it is.

1. Click on the Launch Instance.

2. After all this, Click on the Successfully initiated launch of instance i-XXXX XXXX

   • i-xXXxXXxx -> your instance ID. Every instance will have its ID

1. Probably your screen should be like this

1. Click on the Instance ID

1. Copy the Public Ip Address

1. Open your favourate terminal

   • Go to the path where the key pair file was downloaded.

   • use command chmod 400 filename.pem, as like this.

     • If you are interested behind the scene of chmod 400 follow this.

2. Type the command

ssh -i /path/of/key/downloaded ubuntu@public.ip.address

• Click yes and enjoy

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