Launching an EC2 Instance on AWS ๐Ÿš€ 2022

Launching an EC2 Instance on AWS ๐Ÿš€ 2022

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Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2)

Elastic Cloud Compute is a part of Amazon Cloud Computing that provides servers for rent in the cloud. Elastic ๐Ÿน like the name... EC2 is a cloud service that grows or shrinks based on the number of servers needed to run a deployed application. The servers used in a cloud computing environment are called instances. EC2 instances are run with user-defined configurations.

EC2 are not considered serverless because instances are actual physical servers in data centres of the cloud provider.

There are several instance types that provide varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking capacity.

Launching Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) Instance

Login to your AWS account or create a free account

Type EC2 into the search bar

Select EC2 (Virtual Servers in the Cloud )

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Click on Launch Instance

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Add Name and Tags

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Choose an Amazon Machine Image from the list provided

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Select an Instance Type (Virtual Server type )

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Create a new key pair

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Key pair will prompt a download. Store downloaded key pair to a secure location on your computer.

Configure your network settings

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Storage settings

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Click the Launch Instance button to launch your Instance

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Your Instance launch has been successful

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Go to View all Instances

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Click on your Instance id or select the checkbox against the instance you wish to connect/stop/terminate/view details.

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From here, you can stop, start, connect or terminate your instances.

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