Introduction
In this article, we will see how to create AWS EC2.
- Concept
- Implementation – Creating an AWS EC2.
- Implementation – Connect to the AWS EC2
Concept
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a secure web service that provides a secure, resizable computing capacity in the cloud.
- It allows you to have complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment.
- Benefits of EC2 are that you can decrease or increase capacity within minutes or days.
- The best advantage is that you can scale up and scale down according to your need.
- You can stop any instance any time. The best advantage is that instance can be rebooted remotely using web service APIs, you also have access to their console output.
- Amazon EC2 provides you a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned.
- Cloud security is the highest security and highest priority for everyone. You will benefit from the data center and network architecture built to meet the requirement.
- Amazon EC2 provides multiple images for different operating systems.
Implementation – Creating an AWS EC2
- Sign into Aws Management Console Portal
- Then Drag and Pin the EC2 onto the top.
- Double Click on the EC2
- Click on Launch Instance.
- Select or Choose Amazon Machine Image.
- We have several images or operating system to be select on Amazon.
- Select Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Base.
- And it’s a free tier to create a virtual machine of windows server 2012 R2 Base.
- Select your virtual machine image.
- Choose an Instance Type.
- Now Configure Instance Details.
- Create VPC and subnet group and fill all the required details into it.
- Next step is to add the storage so if you require more storage into that machine you can add New Volume.
- Next Step is to Add Tags.
- So you can add tags to Key-Value pair to identify your machine easier.
- Now, you need to configure your security group to secure your virtual machines.
- You have two options -- you can create a new security group or you can select an existing security group.
- Click on the next screen, Review Instance launch.
- See the configuration which you have selected or configured.
- Then click on Launch.
- This will launch your virtual machine instance.
- Once you click on the Launch button you need to create Key value pair.
- You need to generate a key to login into your EC2 instance.
- Select Create a new key pair.
- Give key pair name and click on download key pair.
- Then click on Launch Instance.
Implementation – Connect to the AWS EC2
- Connect to the AWS EC2.
- Now, we will connect the AWS instance.
- Click on connect to connect the instance.
- Now, click on Get password and upload/choose to file your downloaded key pair file (.pem).
- Click on Decrypt password.
- Save this password in notepad which helps you to connect the EC2 instance later on.
- Now download the remote desktop file and connect to the EC2 instance.
- Give username and password and connect the windows server 2012 R2 Base.
- If you are not able to connect it just enable Remote desktop from Windows 10 OS Settings.
Summary
This is how you can use Amazon EC2.