Getting started with Amazon EC2

Short version:

• go to http://aws.amazon.com/, log in, then “EC2” (upper left);
• select “Launch instance”;
• select “Ubuntu 14.04” from the list;
• select “m3.xlarge” from the list (towards bottom of “General purpose”);
• click “Review and launch”
• select “Launch”;
• if your first time through, create a key pair; otherwise select existing;
• click “launch instance”

More details:

• Start up an EC2 instance
  • Log in
  • Select your zone
  • Select the machine operating system to boot
  • Choose the machine size
  • Confirm and launch
  • (First time through) generate a new key pair
  • (Next times through) select an existing key pair
  • Click on View Instances
  • Select the public DNS name for later use
• Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Windows version)
  • Generate a ppk file from your pem file
  • Logging into your EC2 instance with Putty
• Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Mac version)

A final checklist:

• EC2 instance is running;
• used ubuntu 14.04
• NOT a micro instance (m3.xlarge, or bigger);

Amazon Web Services reference material

Instance types

Instance costs

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