AWS stands for Amazon Web Services. This page is going to introduce how to build an AWS EC2 Instance step by step.
1. Create an Amazon account @ Create AWS Account
2. Choose EC2 @ AWS - Services, more info about detail definition of these services names can be viewed @ AWS in Plain English
3. Choose region as where is near you
4. Click on Launch Instance to launch an instance - Choose OS(ubuntu/linux/unix) - Set up IAM role in some cases - Add storage - Create name tag - Configure Security Group - Select key pair
5. Security Group(name can be changed)
inbound - http : HTTP - TCP - 80 - 0.0.0.0/0
inbound - http: HTTPS - TCP - 443 - 0.0.0.0/0
meteor-ssh: SSH - TCP - 22 - 0.0.0.0/0
Appropriate security group can be used to resolve the problem of [operation time out at port 22]
6. Key Pair
Use existed key pair or create a new one, download the .pem file to be added into .aws folder.
7. Now you can view the instances you have launched and their detail info
Connect to EC2 instance from terminal
1. ssh -i keyPair.pem username@ip_address
2. username can be checked at AWS instance username
Amazon Linux AMI - ec2-user.
RHEL5 AMI - root/ec2-user
Ubuntu AMI - ubuntu
Fedora AMI - fedora/ec2-user
SUSE Linux - root/ec2-user
Connect to EC2 instance by AWS CLI @ Official Site of CLI and AWS CLI
1. Configuration and Credential Files @ Configuring AWS CLI
2. SASH(Secure Shell wrapper) used to replace ssh @ SASH
