A guide on how to do the fundamental actions within AWS management console
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Log into management console and go to
- Services > compute > ec2
- The search bar and type in ec2
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Click the "Launce instance" button
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In the Instance Wizard Form
- Add the name of the instance and possibly add tags
- In Application and OS Images. Pick the AMI that you want to use for the OS ( or just leave it by default)
- In instance type. Choose the instance type that you believe your app needs
- In key pair(login). Create a key pair, if you think you're going to need to SSH into it
- In network settings. Choose what type of VPC, security group, or security group name you want to assign to it
- In Configure storage. Choose the type of Block Storage you want to assign to your instance
- In advanaced details.You can do a lot of stuff. The User data section allows you add code that will be ran once the instance starts up