How to Create an EC2 Instance in AWS in 2024

Key Takeaways

hi and welcome back everyone in this video I'll show you how to very quickly and easily launch an ec2 instance on AWS and then how to connect to your new instance on the terminal using SSH so the first thing you're going to do is go to aws.amazon.com you can remove console here but it will take you to your console anyway and then you can sign into the console if you don't have an account you obviously have to make an account so let's sign in we're going to sign in here and it'll take us to the ec2 dashboard to the AWS dashboard so now we can either click on ec2 here if it shows it in recently visited otherwise we can select it from Services here or we type it in here so we type in ec2 we click on E2 and here the first thing you'll have to do is decide what geographical region you want to be in so right now I'm in US West Oregon and I have an instance running but we can also start launch a new instance by clicking launch instance here and we're going to call it tutorial instance 2 I just made another one we're going to select an operating system I like Ubuntu so this is what I'm going to use I'm going to use Ubuntu Server 2404 long-term support and the architecture I like is a 64-bit x82 architecture so we're going to stick to that and as for instant instance type this depends on what you need your instance for so there's different computers with different you know amounts of memory of CPU power um and so on so if you don't know for sure and you just want to play around you can use the t2 micro which is eligible for free usage if you have a new account you can also to uh instance types so this is if you just type in into Google ec2 instance Ty types this should come up so it's aws.amazon.com E2 instance types and you can look at the different types so we have a T2 micro and it'll tell you everything about the instance you need to know but there's plenty of different types as for pricing you want to go to on demand pricing so ec2 pricing on demand and here you can see for the t2 micro for example let's type it in T2 micro here it'll tell you the cost per hour of the instance running so this is what you'll face and then you can calculate how much that is per day or per month but let's go back here so we're going to stick to this because there's it's 3 tier eligible and it's pretty cheap to run and we're going to create a new key pair so let's click on create new key pair and we're going to call it tutorial key and it's going to create a PM file which we can use in just a second so create pair it created a key file called tutorial key p M we're going to use it in just a minute and then we have to select some network settings so we'll have to at least allow SSH traffic in and at least from the IP from where you want to control the instance so if you type if you select anywhere that's 0.0 it means you can log in from any computer in the world using ssh in a terminal if you want to run a website or web app you'll also want to allow HTTP or https but we're not going to do that now and this is enough for my purposes so hard disk of 8 gabes is fine we're going to launch the instance down here and it's launching the instance so it successfully launched the instance we can now click on instances here and there's two instances one I created before that says running and the new one I created now so you see here tutorial instance two and it's pending because it's still powering up this is the Zone that's in use West 2A and this is the IP so this is fairly important here's the instance type to Now log into the instance on the command line we're going to open a new terminal and the first thing we have to do is we going to we're going to have to change permissions on the PM file we just downloaded so for that we have to do pseudo CH mod 400 those are the permissions we want for the file and then the location of the of of the PM file you just downloaded type your password and now we can do SSH minus I then again the location of the PM file and we're going to type Ubuntu PM Ubuntu that's the username for that type of instance at and then the U the IP of the instance type yes if it's asking and and we're on our instance so this is the instance we just launched on ec2 so you can check it out this is where you are by default you're in home Ubuntu and you can see here your username is auntu and this is the internal IP by Amazon ec2 all right so that's it guys thanks for watching hope you learned something see you next time