HOW TO CREATE AN EC2 INSTANCE ON AWS

EC2 also known as Elastic Cloud computing, enables users to use amazons server to run and deploy applications. Amazon Web Services provides a variety of instances, comprising of different configurations of CPU, memory, storage and networking resources to fulfill the requirements of use

STEPS TO CREATE AN EC2 INSTANCE:

STEP 1: Log in to your AWS management console.

STEP 2: On the top left, select services, under all services & compute and click on EC2.

STEP 3: Scroll down and you will see “LAUNCH INSTANCE” select launch instance and then you will be redirected to a new interface.

STEP 4: Now you will have to choose the desired AMI. You can choose from a variety of AMIs, some of which will be free and the rest will be charged according to your usage.

STEP 5: Let's say you choose “Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base — ami-06298518240efec41” as this a free-to-use type. You can also select any other available AMI.

STEP 6: Now we have to choose our Instance Type, Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. We will be continuing with the default (selected) instance type. Click on “ NEXT: Configure Instance Details”

STEP 7: Leave the settings on default and click “Review and Launch Instance”

STEP 8: In the pop of window select “create new key pair”, then name the key pair accordingly, click on download, after it gets downloaded click on “launch instance”

STEP 9: Click on view instance to get directed to your “Instances” section.

Now you will have to wait for some time and then when it shows 2/2 check (in green color) then you can run your instance.

link to my youtube video which demonstrates all of the above steps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sii8f6gqYOQ