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Getting started with Amazon EC2¶

  • Start up an EC2 instance
    • Log in
    • Select your zone
    • The launch wizard
    • “Create a new instance” page 1
    • “Create a new instance” page 2
    • Wait for your instance to be running
  • Adjusting security rules
  • Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Windows version)
    • Generate a ppk file from your pem file
    • Logging into your EC2 instance with Putty
  • Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Mac version)
  • Installing Dropbox on your EC2 machine

A final checklist:

  • EC2 instance is running;
  • used AMI ami-c17ec8a8;
  • NOT micro instance (m1.large, or bigger);
  • SSH, HTTP, HTTPS are enabled on the security group;

Amazon Web Services reference material¶

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