Launching EC2 with Amazon Linux

EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud

-> Using the EC2 service we can create virtual Machines

-> In EC2 terminology VM is called an Instance

-> AWS provides several AMIs

-> AMI stands for Amazon Machine Image (pre-configured systems)

Launching EC2 instance

1. Choose AMI (Free Tier Eligible)

2. Choose Instance type (t2.micro)

3. Configure Instance (default 1)

4. Add storage (Default 8GB ) -> We can extra storage using EBS up to 30 GB

5. Add Tags (optional)

6. Configure Security Group (to allow traffic to access our EC2)

   SSH: 22

   RDP: 3389

   HTTP: 80

   HTTPS: 443

7. Review Instance Details

8. Create a new key pair and download it

9. Convert Pem file to PPK file

10. Connect to EC2 using Putty