Steps to Create Ec2 Instance in AWS

AWS EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Compute, and it is a part of AWS’s cloud computing platform. EC2 is nothing but a computer server available over the cloud. We can say that it is a virtual server available for computing purposes. There are various sizes of EC2 available for various applications, along with it EC2 comes up with various OS such as Ubuntu, Windows, Red Hat Linux and many more. You can choose any kind of EC2 according to the infrastructure and requirements of the application.

In this article we will discuss how to launch the EC2 instance in aws step by step. There are precisely 9  steps to launch the EC2 instance as explained below.

Select the region

In the first, login into the AWS console and select the region where you want to launch the EC2 instance. After landing on to the required region, click on the Launch Instances button as shown in the picture below.

Choose the type of instance

Choose the type of instance you wanted to launch, AWS provides you with different sets of AMI created on the various OS. Select the one as per the requirements and proceed. Below are the images shown to depict how different types of OS are available.

choose the size of the server

After choosing the operating system, the next step is to choose the size of the server. Size based on the various factors such as CPU, RAM, Storage, SSD, HDD and many more. Below mentioned image gives you a glimpse of how it is done.

 

configure the EC2 instance

In this step, you need to configure the EC2 instance, whether you want Auto scaling available or no, with vpc, subnets, public ip and many more and then go to the next step to after configuring the instance as per the requirements as shown in the image below.

select the size of storage

In the next step you are supposed to select the size of storage/volume and the type of volume which needs to be attached with the instance. 

Tag for the EC2 instance

In the further step, you can make tag for the EC2 instance and proceed further.

configuring Security group

The next step is for configuring Security group, here you can allow the inbound traffic to the EC2 instance. I.e from which port EC2 is accessible for the outside world as shown in the image below.

review the instance configuration

In the last you can review the instance configuration made until now and proceed further. And click on the launch button

create a key value pair

In the final step you can create a key value pair which is required to login into the instance for further usage as shown in fig below:

That's all you need to know about this topic.

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