Creating an AWS Account

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Creating an EC2 Instance 

Follow the link below and click on “Sign in to the Console”.

• http://aws.amazon.com
• Enter your email address and select “I am a new user”.

Complete Registration

Be sure to register the account with a credit card and valid address, this is required to access some of the services offered. 

If you receive a screen similar to that above when trying to access services, then you need to complete your registration.

Creating an EC2 Instance 

 Creating an EC2 Instance

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Creating an AWS Account 

Elastic Compute Cloud

1. Login to your AWS account at  http://aws.amazon.com/​ 

2. Click on EC2 Virtual servers in the cloud 

3. Select Instances under the Instances Tab and click "Launch Instance". 

4. Select Amazon Linux AMI 64bit, then configure instance details.  

For this tutorial we will use Amazon Linux, however select the AMI you want. Think of AMI as an Operating System.

5. Choose Instance type then click "Next:Configure Instance details"

Here is where you choose the type of Instance you want to launch. This refers to the amount of memory and cpu's a instance has. Think of it as machine performance.

6. Configure your Instance details, then click "Next: Add storage"

Here you can specify the amount of instances you wish to create. You also state how your instance behaves if/when it is shutdown.

7.  Add a storage volume, then click "Next: Tag Instance"

Here is where you should specify the type & size of your storage.

You can also add more Volumes. Think of this as your instance hard disk.

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8. Enter a name for your instance in the textbox labelled value.

This step is just to give your instance a tag/name. You might want to add some extra tags. Just click create tag. e.g. Description - Tell the purpose of this instance.

9. Add rules

Think of this as a firewall for your AWS Instance. In the screenshot above we are allowing ssh on port 22, http on port 80, https on port 443. Additionally we are allowing TCP connection on port 27017 & 3000, this is because we plan to run mongodb and node apps on our instance.

For rules like http and https you may want to allow access from anywhere instead of My IP.

n.b. if your source says anywhere that means any ip address can connect to your instance. That may cause security problems

10. Review details and launch Instance

Almost Finished!

Double check all your configurations and Launch your instance. 

11. Select create a new key pair, name the key pair and download key pair.

Optional Setting an ElasticIP to point to your Instance

n.b. Be careful of where you download this key, you will only be able to download once.

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12. Go to Elastic Ip under Network & Security and click allocate new address.

13. Right click on the Elastic IP and Associate address, left click in the instance text box then select your instance. 

14. Click associate. Instance must be running or it will not be displayed in instance text box. 

Click

"Associate"

Your have sucessfully associated an ElasticIP with your instance.

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