Getting Started with Amazon EC2

1. How do I use Amazon EC2?
2. How do I start an EC2 instance?
3. How do I connect to Amazon EC2 instance?
4. How do I create an Amazon EC2 account?
5. How does Amazon EC2 renting work?
6. Is Amazon EC2 IaaS or PAAS?
7. Do stopped EC2 instances cost money?
8. How is EC2 billed?
9. Is EC2 a virtual machine?
10. How do I access my Amazon EC2 files?
11. How do I run an EC2 instance in PuTTY?

How do I use Amazon EC2?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
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Connect to Your Instance

1. Select the EC2 instance you created and choose "Connect. “
2. Select “EC2 Instance Connect.”
3. Choose “Connect”. A window opens, and you are connected to your instance.

How do I start an EC2 instance?

To launch an EC2 instance

1. Sign in to the preview version of the AWS Management Console .
2. Open the Amazon EC2 console by choosing EC2 under Compute. ...
3. From the Amazon EC2 dashboard, choose Launch Instance.

How do I connect to Amazon EC2 instance?

To connect from the Amazon EC2 console

1. Open the Amazon EC2 console.
2. In the left navigation pane, choose Instances and select the instance to which to connect.
3. Choose Connect.
4. On the Connect To Your Instance page, choose EC2 Instance Connect (browser-based SSH connection), Connect.

How do I create an Amazon EC2 account?

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1. Open the Amazon Web Services home page.
2. Choose Create an AWS Account. ...
3. Enter your account information, and then choose Continue. ...
4. Choose Personal or Professional. ...
5. Enter your company or personal information. ...
6. Read and accept the AWS Customer Agreement. ...
7. Choose Create Account and Continue.

How does Amazon EC2 renting work?

EC2 enables on-demand, scalable computing capacity in the AWS cloud. Amazon EC2 instances eliminate the up-front investment for hardware, and there is no need to maintain any rented hardware. It enables you to build and run applications faster. You can use EC2 in AWS to launch as many virtual servers as you need.

Is Amazon EC2 IaaS or PAAS?

AWS Elastic Compute Service or EC2 is IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service). This is because Amazon takes the responsibility of networking, storage, server and virtualization and the user is responsible for managing the Operating System, middleware, runtime, data and application.

Do stopped EC2 instances cost money?

No, For stopped instances, AWS does not charge for any instance usage fees, however, you will be charged for any other resources that are attached to your stopped instances such as EBS volume or S3 storage. You can learn more about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud on AWS EC2.

How is EC2 billed?

EC2 usage are billed on one second increments, with a minimum of 60 seconds. Similarly, provisioned storage for EBS volumes will be billed per-second increments, with a 60 second minimum. Per-second billing is available for instances launched in: On-Demand, Reserved and Spot forms.

Is EC2 a virtual machine?

An Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance is a virtual server that you can use to run applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS). When setting up an EC2 instance, you can custom-configure CPU, storage, memory, and networking resources. ... When you create an instance, you create it with an Amazon Machine Image (AMI).

How do I access my Amazon EC2 files?

Amazon EFS uses the NFSv4. 1 protocol that can be used for the purpose and to access your file system, you can mount the file system on your Amazon EC2 Linux-based instance that is using the standard Linux mount command and then get the file system's DNS name.

How do I run an EC2 instance in PuTTY?

Connect to EC2

1. Make sure: ...
2. In the Category pane on the left of the PuTTY Configuration window, under Connection, click on the + next to SSH to expand the choices (4), then click on Auth (5).
3. Under Authentication parameters, click Browse and navigate to the directory where your PuTTY Private Key (. ...
4. Click Open.