Start up an EC2 instance¶

Log in¶

Go to ‘https://aws.amazon.com‘ in a Web browser.

Select ‘My Account/Console’ menu option ‘AWS Management Console.”

Click on EC2 (upper left).

Select your zone¶

Many of the resources that we use are hosted by Amazon on the East coast. Make sure that your dashboard has ‘N. Virginia’ on the upper right.

Then click on Launch Instance.

Select the machine operating system to boot¶

Find the “Ubuntu Server 14.04” image in the first list to show up.

Choose the machine size¶

Select ‘General purpose’, ‘c4.2xlarge’, and then ‘Review and Launch’.

Change the size of the hard drive¶

Make the size of the hard drive to be 100GB (or whatever is appropriate for the lesson).

Confirm and launch¶

Review the details (ignore the warnings!) and click on Launch.

(First time through) generate a new key pair¶

If you don’t have any key pairs, enter a key pair name and then download a key pair. Then click Launch Instance.

(Next times through) select an existing key pair¶

Select a key pair and click ‘Launch’.

Click on View Instances¶

Select the public DNS name for later use¶

Next steps¶

Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Mac version) or Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Windows version)

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