Steps to launch AWS Instance

 Steps to launch AWS Instance

Step 1: Create Amazon aws free account using URL https://aws.amazon.com/

Step 2: Login to your Aws account and go to EC2 Dashboard  then Click Launch Instance which will show list of available Amazon Machine Image (AMI) . Then select the AMI as per your requirement and make sure to select  t2.micro type which comes under free tier . Then there is a option to add the additional storage and configure security groups using which we can open the ports. Then click on Review and Launch user will get the option to select the key pair for authentication (public key) . Download the key pair and click on Launch Instance . This will take few minutes to activate the instance . Do not share the key pair with anyone for security reason . Using this key pair user can generate private key and connect using ssh client putty.

Step 3: Go to EC2 Dashboard, click on Running Instances . We can see the status of the launched instance. Once the status is running we can start using the AWS instance .