kramundson/aws_setup

How to set up an Amazon Web Services computer (a virtual "instance"):

This page shows you how to create a new "AWS instance", or a running computer In a web browser, navigate to https://aws.amazon.com/ and log in using your credentials

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0. Under "Compute", select EC2

1. Switch to zone US West (N California)

2. Click on "Launch Instance"

3. On the left side of the next page, select "Community AMIs"

4. Search for ami-c72d7fa7 (2017-01-20-ubuntu-wily-titus-ucdavis-dragon)

5. Click on "select"

6. Choose t2.micro

7. Near the top, click "6. Configure Security Group"

8. Click "Add Rule"

9. Change the Port Range from 0 to 8000

10. Click Review and Launch

11. Click "Launch"

12. Under the drop down menu, select "Proceed without a key pair" and check the box

13. Click "Launch Instances"

14. Click "View Instances"

15. Copy the IPv4 public IP into a new browser tab and add ":8000" to the end.

16. You should see a page like this:

17. Enter the password (note, it will always be city in which UCD is located. No caps.)

18. Click "New", and select "Terminal" from the drop down menu

19. Type "bash" into the terminal window-looking thing in the new tab. Hit Enter

20. Do all of the things in your shiny new Linux-based environment

21. When you're done, terminate the instance.

In the EC2 management console, select the instance, then click Actions and select Terminate from the drop down menu. When prompted, click "Yes, Terminate"