Thread: Getting Started With Amazon EC2

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I just created my first Amazon EC2 instance. And I must say, the initial steps are a bit overwhelming. To help with that. I am adding my notes/links/videos that I have collected today. I'll be updating this as I understand more about it. Hope it helps. Cheers.

• Start from here
• now to give privilage rights for you to access via your own user check this link
• This Link is to create key pairs etc
• For firefox console extension check this
• Amazon official help for link this
• if you face any problems Check Link1 and Link2
• Link to instance families types
• List of AMIs
• Amazon Web Console Link
• Video Link to understand how to use Web Console

NOTE:-
Make sure your .ec2 folder is chmod 700
and all the files in it are chmod 600 else you’ll get issues

Once you are able to ssh
use this command to create your new user

Code:

$useradd -s /bin/bash -m -d /home/USER USER

$passwd USER
<give your user passwd>

If you got any Questions, Post them on your comments
Enjoy!!

PS - Thanks to Siddharth Sarda for helping me out
PS2 - You need credit card details to get a free instance for yourself. You wont be charged for the free instance(below a threshold), but to get credentials you still need credit card. Check this for more details.