Create EC2 Instance in AWS (Amazon)
The following are the steps for creating an EC2 instance in AWS (Amazon):
Step 1: First, log into your AWS account and click on “services” present on the left of the AWS management console, i.e. the primary screen. From the drop-down menu of options, tap on “EC2”. To create an AWS free tier account refer to Amazon Web Services (AWS) – Free Tier Account Set up.
Under Resources >> Click on “Instances running” — It will show if any EC2 instances are running or not.
Step 2: Click on the launch instance click on the launch instance, after clicking on it you will be redirected to a launch page where we can create an instance. Configure all the requirements to Create a new instance like the name of the instance as shown in the figure below.
Step 3: Select AMI – Required operating system from the available. There are different types of OS available select the OS as per your requirement.
Step 4: By default, it selects a free tier of storage. (IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE FOR THE FREE TIER). From the available storage specifications, select a free tier-eligible storage service. The instance type includes the no.of CPUs required and the Memory required for your application. By default, the instance type is “t2.micro” which is a free tier-eligible service. Do not select any other which leads to the billing amount. To know more about instance types refer to Amazon EC2 – Instance Types.
Step 4: Now, create a key-value pair, by clicking on “Create new key pair”. A window will pop up for creating key pair as shown below. The key value pair plays a major role while connecting to the EC2-Instance it will act as an SSH-Key to connect to the instance. Create Key-PairEnter name>>Select “.pem” and create. Automatically key pair which was created will be downloaded. Select the created key pair.
Step 5: Keep the network settings as default settings and make changes if required.StorageAs mentioned in the picture, Free tier eligible can get up to 30 GB of EBS Storage. Keep it as default.
Step 6: Launching Instance At last, Check if all the selected are eligible for a free tier or not and click on “Launch instance”.That’s it, an instance will be created.
Create EC2 Instance in AWS (Amazon): Complete Tutorial
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. EC2 is an on-demand computing service on the AWS cloud platform. Under computing, it includes all the services a computing device can offer to you along with the flexibility of a virtual environment. It also allows the user to configure their instances as per their requirements i.e. allocate the RAM, ROM, and storage according to the need of the current task.
Amazon EC2 is a short form of Elastic Compute Cloud (ECC) it is a cloud computing service offered by the Cloud Service Provider AWS. You can deploy your applications in EC2 servers without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. You configure the EC2-Instance in a very secure manner by using the VPC, Subnets, and Security groups. You can scale the configuration of the EC2 instance you have configured based on the demand of the application by attaching the autoscaling group to the EC2 instance. You can scale up and scale down the instance based on the incoming traffic of the application.
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