Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Using Amazon EC2 eliminates your need to invest in hardware up front, so you can develop and deploy applications faster. You can use Amazon EC2 to launch as many or as few virtual servers as you need, configure security and networking, and manage storage. Amazon EC2 enables you to scale up or down to handle changes in requirements or spikes in popularity, reducing your need to forecast traffic.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
First we need to open EC2 service in the Amazon Web Services and launch instance to create Amazon Linux Instance from an Amazon Machine Image. Here, we are creating Linux machine which configures automatically we need to select basic options like processors, hard disk memory.
The PuTTY configuration page:
This interface attaches public DNS automatically and we need to copy that public DNS and the name of public DNS is like “ec2-54-201-40-206.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com”. We need to connect to this DNS server with the given user name using Putty.exe through SSH connection. For authentication it needs private key, this EC2 key pair private key was provided by the Amazon only (we can get this in the LAB site only from “Download PPK/PEM”).
We Successfully completed the lab on Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) as shown in the figure below.
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