EC2(Elastic Compute)

Creation

Great 5 min Coursera Video Launching Instance

Go here and launch instance

• 1 AMI(Amazon Machine Instance): machine configuration like hardware and software

• 3 Instance Details: VPC and subnets, roles(ocmmunication between services), user data under advanced(define scripts to run on startup)

• 5 Tags: add some details

• 6: Security Group: who can access instance

  • To allow http traffic, need to allow TCP on port 80 with 0.0.0.0/0 represents anyone on ipv4 and ::/0 represents anyone on ipv6

  • To allow ssh traffic, port range 22

• Final: Choose key pair to access instance(main.pem for you Jorge)

Get your key

SSH

ssh with your key into EC2

Key must be 400 permission chmod 400 [keypath].pem

More info here

ssh -i [key file] [default AMI username]@[public DNS address or IPv6]

e.g

ssh -i "~/Desktop/main.pem" [e-mail]

Default AMI username for Ubuntu is ubuntu and for linux ami is ec2-user