EC2 Instance

Amazon EC2

Create/Configure EC2 Instance

AWS Cloud platform provides software configure images(includes OS, Application Server etc..) . Supplier of these images to AWS Cloud platform is either by AWS, user community or AWS marketplace.

Users can create an image from their existing EC2 instances.

Create and connect to an EC2 instance

Generate a Key Pair in AWS, It will let you download a *.pem file.

[Question] How to get a pem file for existing key pair ?

Using putty extract the Putty private key file from it.

Browse the PPK file in Putty and connect with Pubic DNS.

auth-ppk

For amazon AMI you have to use ec2-user as your username.

Question: I created a Windows Server 2019 base Image EC2 instance, I am able to login using remote desktop credentials but when I tried to download chrome, got below security alert.

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Note : EC2 and ECS supports hyper-threading on one or more virtual CPUs

Amazon EC2 instances support multithreading, which enables multiple threads to run concurrently on a single CPU core. Each thread is represented as a virtual CPU (vCPU) on the instance. An instance has a default number of CPU cores, which varies according to instance type.

References : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html

What is EC2 Reserved Instances ?

What is EC2 Scheduled Reserved Instances ?