How to create an EC2 instance on AWS cloud

In this blog, we will see how to create the EC2 instance for a Linux environment, in the previous blog we learned basics about the cloud, EC2 instance, and its components

Go to:-

Services ----> Compute ----> EC2

After clicking on EC2 below screen will appear

Click on Launch instance

After that, we have to do the configuration for instance like, giving name, instance type, security groups etc.

Choose AMI

An AMI contains the software configuration (operating system (OS), application server, and applications) required to launch your instance.

Note:- Always choose free tier-eligible images for practice purposes to avoid billing.

Choose instance type

Select an instance type that meets your computing, memory, networking, or storage needs.

Choose Free tier eligible

Key Pair

To specify a key pair in your launch template, you can select the key pair from the Key pair name field.

Click on:- Create new key pair

The key pair name should be anything and the private key file format should be in .ppk (its use to connect instances through putty software)

After clicking on create key pair then downloaded the key with the .ppk extension

Security Group

A security group is a set of firewall rules that control the traffic for your instance. Add rules to allow specific traffic to reach your instance.

Configure storage

Specify the storage options for the instance.
Number of instances

You can specify more than 1 instance to launch. All the instances will launch with the same configuration.

To ensure faster instance launches, break up large requests into smaller batches. For example, create 5 separate launch requests for 100 instances each instead of 1 launch request for 500 instances.