How To Create And LaunchYour First EC2 Instance
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What is EC2? EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Compute. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
What is Instances ? Amazon EC2 provides different instance types to enable you to choose the CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity that you need to run your applications. For simple , Instance is OS(operating system)+ hardware which you select as per you need.
Before we launch and connect we need a to create key pair. If you have already key pair then you need not to create a new one.
TO CREATE KEY PAIR
Step 1: Open your EC2 Console .https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
Step2:Click on key pair.
Click on Key pairs.
Step 3: Click on the create key.
Step 4: Click on Name and enter key name. Select pem format here. Click Create key pair.
TO LAUNCH INSTANCE
Step 0:Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/. choose “Launch Instance”.
Step 1:Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), find an Amazon Linux AMI at the top of the list and choose Select.
Step 2: Choose an Instance Type, choose Next: Configure Instance Details.
Step 3: Configure Instance Details.
Step 4:Add Database.
Step 5:Choose Next: Add Tags.
Step 6: Next Configure Security Group.
- Select “Create a new security group”
- Select on “Review and Launch”
Step 7:Review and Launch.
- Select Review and Launch
- Click Launch
Step 7: Click on View Instance.
1.Select and click on Connect.
Step 8:Connect to your Instance [Way 1 using browser]
- Select EC2 Instance Connect
- Keep User name default(ec2-user)
- Click on Connect.
Output 1
[Way 1 using SSH]
- Use below Command to connect with Instance.
- ssh -l username pubic-Ip -i “mykey.pem”
- Eg: ssh -l ec2-user ip -i mykey.pem
- [keep mykey.pem in current working directory ]
I hope you like and learn how to create and launch first instance(os).
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