{"id":19277,"date":"2020-09-18T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T07:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/aws-ec2-tutorial\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:09:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T02:39:38","slug":"aws-ec2-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/aws-ec2-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS EC2 Tutorial | What is AWS EC2?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazon Web Services is one of the leading Cloud Service Providers in the market. It is known for its 200+ services it offers. One of those services is AWS EC2, which is easily one of the most popular Cloud service in the market. This article will help you understand and explore AWS EC2 in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"courses-cta-container\">\n        <div class=\"courses-cta-card\">\n            <div class=\"courses-cta-header\">\n                <div class=\"courses-learn-icon\"><\/div>\n                <span class=\"courses-learn-text\">Academy Pro<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n            <p class=\"courses-cta-title\">\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/premium\/hands-on-aws-cloud-training-essentials\" class=\"courses-cta-title-link\">AWS Cloud Course<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n            <p class=\"courses-cta-description\">Learn AWS Cloud fundamentals and gain hands-on experience in deploying, managing, and scaling applications on AWS.<\/p>\n            <div class=\"courses-cta-stats\">\n                <div class=\"courses-stat-item\">\n                    <div class=\"courses-stat-icon courses-user-icon\"><\/div>\n                    <span>8.58 Hrs<\/span>\n                <\/div>\n                <div class=\"courses-stat-item\">\n                    <div class=\"courses-stat-icon courses-star-icon\"><\/div>\n                    <span>1 Project<\/span>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/premium\/hands-on-aws-cloud-training-essentials\" class=\"courses-cta-button\">\n                Enrol Now for AWS Cloud Course\n                <div class=\"courses-arrow-icon\"><\/div>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-aws\"><strong>What is AWS?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/learn-for-free\/courses\/aws-for-beginners1\">AWS or Amazon Web Services<\/a>, as mentioned above is one of the most popular Cloud Service providers in the market. It is a full-fledged Public Cloud Service Provider that offers 200+ cloud services and serves in 240+ countries. AWS has the highest market share in terms of the Public Cloud market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an on-demand Public Cloud Service Provider which offers cloud services that can be accessed from anywhere across the globe. With Amazon Web Services you do not need to maintain or monitor these services. The vendor takes care of all the management and maintenance parts. Another benefit of using AWS is it offers metered usage, which means you will be charged only for the resources used and only for the duration you have used those resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was about what is AWS? Let us go ahead and AWS Compute Services,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It offers the following features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scalability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flexibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metered<br>Usage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Management<br>Support<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Availability,<br>etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"aws-computer-services\"><strong>AWS Computer Services<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Computation services are services that offer computation power or\ncomputation capacity to run your system. This is like providing you server\ncapacity to run your applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWS offers plenty of services that offer computation capacity in different levels with different configurations to meet your individual and business needs. Let us take a look at some of those services one by one,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"aws-lambda\"><strong>AWS Lambda<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon Lambda is a Serverless compute service offered by AWS. With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/learn-for-free\/courses\/aws-lambda-tutorial\">AWS Lambda<\/a> you have the ability to run your code without having to worry about provisioning or managing servers. Here you can run code with any type of application virtually with any type of backend or service. That means you need zero administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"amazon-elastic-beanstalk\"><strong>Amazon Elastic Beanstalk<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS or Platform as a Service offered by AWS. Here the vendor or Amazon Web Services offers a platform for you to use, all you do is bring your data\/code and your application put it on top of Amazon Elastic Beanstalk, and run the application on top of AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"aws-autoscaling-and-load-balancers\"><strong>AWS Autoscaling and Load Balancers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>With AWS Autoscaling you scale your instances automatically to scale to the changing need of the application being hosted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/learn-for-free\/courses\/aws-load-balancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AWS Load Balancers<\/a> on the other hand ensure that if any of your cloud servers are experiencing access traffic that gets redirected to some other server or machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was about different compute services offered by AWS, however, we will now go ahead and discuss the last compute service which is the topic of this article. So let us get started,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"what-is-aws-ec2\"><strong>What is AWS EC2?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/academy\/learn-for-free\/courses\/what-is-aws-ec2\">AWS EC2<\/a> is a compute service that provides IaaS services on the AWS Cloud Platform. IaaS stands for Infrastructure as a Service. That means complete infrastructure is provided by AWS which you can configure to suit your needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With EC2 you can launch instances of different types. Let us understand what instances are. You may think of Instances that are nothing but mini-computers that have their separate small storage, network, and compute capacity. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/download-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/download-1.png\" alt=\"EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19280\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These mini-computers can be called Instances. In more sophisticated terms, these are nothing but virtual machines that reside on servers but give you a feel of running on your system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amazon EC2 offers instances that can be a Windows Operating System, can be an Unbuntu or Linux Operating system, and many more. With these instances, it is possible to take backup of data, create replicas or templates of instances being used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWS EC2 has a large family of EC2 instances and they vary based on quite\na few factors. Let us try and understand these instances one by one,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"types-of-aws-ec2-instances\"><strong>Types of AWS EC2 Instances &nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned already AWS offers many kinds of instances, let us try and\nunderstand what are the types of AWS EC2 Compute Instances first. Following is\nthe list of the same,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>General<br>Purpose Instances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Compute<br>Optimized<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Memory<br>Optimized<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Storage<br>Optimized <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accelerated<br>Computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us start by understanding them in the above order,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General Purpose Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These\ninstances provide balance in computation, memory, and network capabilities.\nThey can handle variety of workloads and serve diverse set of purposes. If your\napplications need resources in equal proportions be it your servers,\nrepositories etc, then you can opt for AWS EC2 general purpose instances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following\nare some of its features,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They have custom built<br>processors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provide networking services<br>with high network bandwidth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>EBS optimized volume<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Compute Optimized Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have applications that need processors with high performance,\nthen you should opt for AWS EC2 Compute optimized instances. In short they are\nbest suited for Compute bound applications. These instances are also well\nsuited to support Batch Processing kind of workloads and media transcoding,\nhigh performance servers. Other notable applications would be gaming servers,\nad servers, machine learning applications or any other requirement that is\ncompute intensive in nature. Compute optimized instances will have you covered\nhere. Let us go ahead and take a look at some of the features of AWS Optimized\nCompute Instances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They<br>support custom built processors known as AWS Gravitation 2 processors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These are<br>EBS optimized just like general purpose instances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced<br>networking is supported up to 25 GBPS of bandwidth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is powered by AWS Nitro System, a combination of\ndedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us now go ahead and understand memory instances\nby AWS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Memory Optimised Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are designed for fast optimized performance. The aim is the\nability to process workloads with large data set processing in memory.\nFollowing types of instances fall under memory optimized instances:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>R6g<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R5<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R5aR5n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>R4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The EC2 R6g instances are powered by processors AWS Gravition2. These\nare the latest ones and give 40% performance in terms of pricing. These are\ngood for memory intensive applications. They offer following features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They support 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Networking support is again up to 25gb bandwidth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By default, EBS backup<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And are powered by Nitro systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us now go ahead and understand other types of instances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Storage Optimized Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These type of instances are\ndesigned to manage workloads where you need constant and high speed read write\naccess. Also the data sets being dealt are voluminous and reside on local\nstorage. The number of IO operations that can be delivered using these\ninstances are in 10s of thousands per second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It supports following\nset of families,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I3en<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>D2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It provides\nfollowing features,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It uses High Frequency Intel Xeon<br>E5-2686 v4 Processors and have base frequency of 2.3 GHz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It offers network bandwidth Up to 25<br>GB of network bandwidth and uses Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)-based Enhanced<br>Networking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It offers high I\/O performance and<br>even Sequential Read throughput<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You get support for bare metal<br>instance size for workloads that require direct access to physical processor<br>and memory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"accelerated-computing\"><strong>Accelerated Computing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These instances can\nbe thought of as Graphical processing intensive type of instances. They may use\nhardware accelerators or even co processors to perform intensive calculations\nor do graphical processing., eve pattern matching. This happens at a better\nefficiency than the normal software that runs of systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It supports\nfollowing types or family instance sets,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>P3p2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inf1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>G4<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>G3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>F1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This was about\ndifferent EC2 instances based on their family types. Now let us go ahead and\nunderstand these instances based on their pricing models. We have following\nclassifications in our hand,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On Demand<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spot Instances<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reserved<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dedicated Instances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us understand\nthese one by one,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Demand<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the name\nsuggests, these instances can be requested on demand. These instances do not\nrequire any upfront costs. When you request an instance, it is made available\nto you and it serves a particular purpose for you. These instances scale up\ndepending upon the need of the application and you will be charged accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These instances are\nbest suited for following types of applications,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications needing low latency services and no<br>upfront costs for undisturbed performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In cases where you need un interrupted performance,<br>and need to handle spiky short term inconsistent traffic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>These are more suited for applications that being<br>developed or tested for the first time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So this is how on\ndemand instances operate, let us now go ahead and understand Spot instances,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spot Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have\nworkloads that can be managed by instances, which do not require specific\nconfigurations then AWS EC2 Spot instances will serve you well. With AWS you\ncan request for instances that are spare with AWS EC2. You can expect these\ninstances to have 90% off the On-Demand price<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is useful for applications that are <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stateless<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fault-tolerant <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flexible <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples include<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Big data,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Containerized workloads,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CI\/CD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Web servers <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High-performance computing (HPC) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Test &amp; development workloads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These instances are can be recommended for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications with flexible start and end times<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications feasible at very low compute prices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications with urgent computing needs for large amounts of<br>additional capacity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So this was about\nSpot instances, let us now go ahead and understand what are Reserved Instances,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reserved Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are\ncertain about the capacity and time in which you want to use EC2 resource it is\nwise to opt for AWS EC2 reserved instances, these ensure, you get a good\ndiscount here. Since you are aware about the requirement, it is booking or\nreserving those instances for a particular duration. The discounts here can be\nas significant as 75% if you compare it with on demand instances which\nunderstandable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are best\nsuited for applications that require steady state or have predictable state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following\napplications are best served here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Applications with Steady State<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications needing reserved capacity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications that can be committed for 1 to 3 years<br>of usage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So this was about\nreserved instances, lets us now go ahead and understand what are dedicated\ninstances,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dedicated Instances<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These instances are\nbest suited for applications that need to or can be used with Server Bound\nApplications. Here you have a host that uses Dedicated EC2 Server and since we\nare using Server bound resources it is also available cheaply. It supports\nfollowing licenses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows Server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SQL Server<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SUSE Linux\nEnterprise Server etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These servers are\nalso good when it comes to security concerns. Since these are dedicated\nservers, you have more security overall and security intensive applications\nfeel safer here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These instances\ngive you options in terms of purchasing as well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can purchase them On-Demand (hourly basis)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may reserve these instances and save up to 70%<br>on these instances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So this was about\nReserved Instances. And this was about different types of instances that AWS\nEC2 offer. There are more options it offers, but these are the major ones under\nthe hood. Let us now go ahead and see how you can use AWS EC2 instances\npractically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this you\nwould be needing access to AWS Freer Tier Account. If you don\u2019t have one,\nensure you visit AWS official web site and sign up to AWS Free tier account\nwhich you can use free of cost for one complete year. Assuming that you have a\nfree tier account, let us go ahead and take a look at the practical\nimplementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"launching-a-virtual-machine-with-aws-ec2\"><strong>Launching a Virtual Machine with AWS EC2<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you\nsign up for a fee tier AWS console, you will see the following page,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.png zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1266\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1.png 1266w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1024x437.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-696x297.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-1068x456.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1-985x420.png 985w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1266px) 100vw, 1266px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step1:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on\nServices and you will see all the services AWS provides. Under Compute Domain,\nclick on AWS EC2,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1293\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2.png 1293w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-300x89.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-1024x303.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-768x227.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-696x206.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2-1068x316.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1293px) 100vw, 1293px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step2:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on running\ninstances,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full td-caption-align-https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3.png zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1048\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3.png 1048w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-300x98.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-1024x336.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-768x252.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/3-696x228.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step3:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on launch\ninstances,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1.png 1014w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1-768x276.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/4-1-696x251.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step4:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will be taken\nto AWS EC2 AMI page, where you have option to choose different instances, we\nwill select a free tier eligible Windows Server instance by scrolling down the\nlist<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1304\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5.png 1304w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1024x347.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-768x260.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-696x236.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1068x362.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/5-1239x420.png 1239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1304px) 100vw, 1304px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> AWS EC2 AMI or Amazon Machine Image is nothing but\na template of instance or virtual machine which preconfigured to suit certain\nconfiguration requirements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step5:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AWS you have\nthe option to configure the settings to suit your needs, however we will stick\nto the default requirements here, so continue clicking next until we reach the\nbelow page. Here we will create a key value pair that helps login to the\ninstance. This key pair if lost you cannot login to an AWS Instance, so ensure\nyou download it and keep it safe. Then click on \u2018Launch Instance\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1.png 700w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1-696x506.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1-578x420.png 578w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/6-1-324x235.png 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step6:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on view\ninstance and you will be directed to following page, wait till the status\nchecks for the instance are complete and green. Click on Connect on the top\nleft corner<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2.png 1152w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2-300x71.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2-1024x244.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2-768x183.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2-696x166.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/7-2-1068x254.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step7:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following page will\nappear, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download RDP, this\nis what we will use to log in to AWS EC2 instance, click on get password,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1.png 704w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1-696x493.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1-593x420.png 593w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-1-100x70.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step8:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you click on\nget password, you get a prompt to select the key you want to decrypt. Select\nthe PEM key-pair file, we downloaded during launching the instance. Now decrypt\nit and open the RDP file that was downloaded in previous step, also keep the\npassword decrypted copied.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1.png 704w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1-218x150.png 218w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1-696x477.png 696w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/9-1-613x420.png 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step9: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click on connect,\nfollowing window will appear, enter the decrypted key in the password, say OK\nand say yes,<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full zoomable\" data-full=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10.png\" alt=\"Launch EC2 Instance - AWS Tutorial For Beginners - Great Learning\" class=\"wp-image-19290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10.png 451w, https:\/\/www.mygreatlearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10-300x262.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step10:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There you go, your\nAWS EC2 instance is up and running. This instance will look like and function\nas Windows virtual machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can configure\nthis instance you suit your needs further. But that discussion is for some\nother article. Also you note you can launch other types of EC2 instances like Ubuntu,\nlinux, etc. Do give it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This brings us to the end of this article, we hope you liked AWS EC2 tutorial article. In case of queries, put those in the comment section and our team would revert at the earliest. Happy Learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services is one of the leading Cloud Service Providers in the market. It is known for its 200+ services it offers. One of those services is AWS EC2, which is easily one of the most popular Cloud service in the market. This article will help you understand and explore AWS EC2 in detail. 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