AWS

In this section we discuss about using AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a secure cloud services platform, which offers computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. It is one of the most popular platforms which is currently in use for hosting software platforms on the cloud. If you haven’t created an account, you can create one by logging onto the AWS console.

The steps for creating an instance are as follows.

1. Search for EC2 and open the Instances dashboard page and click on Launch Instance.

2. Choose the AMI(Amazon Machine Image). You can select an AMI provided by AWS, our user community, or the AWS Marketplace; or you can select one of your own AMIs. The AMI should have the following specifications:

a. 8GB ram

b. Dual core processor

c. 64 bit processor

3. Choose the Instance Type, contains (General/Copute, RAM, vCPU). You can select either of the following:

t2.large, m5.large, m4.large, c5.xlarge, c4.xlarge, t3a.large

4. Configure the instance detail. Check for the Network, Subnet, Auto-assign Public_Ip, Shutdown Behavior,

and monitoring.

5. Add the IP Address as per your Requirement. You could place a Tag for the Instance which will help you

to monitor cost of the Instance.

6. Configure security group. You can create one for this Instance or you can use one group for all Instances.

This needs to be specified here.

7. Review the Instance configuration Click on launch button. (NOTE:- Here Launch button will not launch

your Instance).

8. Now pop-up will ask for key pair, select one option.

9. Download the key and store it in a safe place. For future usage, convert ppm to ppk format using putty. Use the ppk key downloaded to login to the server in the future.

10. Click the check box and click on "Launch Instance"

With this, an instance is successfully created and launched. This will be visible in the region where the instance will be created on the instance dashboard.