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What Is EC2

EC2 is one of AWS's most popular offerings that allows users to rent virtual machines and storage. It provides capabilities like launching EC2 instances, storing data on EBS volumes, distributing load with ELB, and auto-scaling with ASG. The document then provides instructions on how to launch an EC2 Linux instance, SSH into it from Linux/Mac, and connect to the instance within a browser.

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What Is EC2

EC2 is one of AWS's most popular offerings that allows users to rent virtual machines and storage. It provides capabilities like launching EC2 instances, storing data on EBS volumes, distributing load with ELB, and auto-scaling with ASG. The document then provides instructions on how to launch an EC2 Linux instance, SSH into it from Linux/Mac, and connect to the instance within a browser.

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What is EC2?

• EC2 is one of most popular of AWS offering


• It mainly consists in the capability of :
• Renting virtual machines (EC2)
• Storing data on virtual drives (EBS)
• Distributing load across machines (ELB)
• Scaling the services using an auto-scaling group (ASG)
• Knowing EC2 is fundamental to understand how the
Cloud works

Hands-On: Launching
an EC2 Instance
running Linux
• We’ll be launching our first virtual server using the AWS
Console
• We’ll get a first high level approach to the various
parameters
• We’ll learn how to start / stop / terminate our instance.

How to SSH into your


EC2 Instance Linux /
Mac OS X
• We’ll learn how to SSH into your EC2 instance using
Linux / Mac
• SSH is one of the most important function. It allows you
to control a remote machine, all using the command line.
• We will see how we can configure OpenSSH
~/.ssh/config to facilitate the SSH into our EC2 instances

Digramatic
representation:
EC2 Instance Connect
• Connect to your EC2 instance within your browser
• No need to use your key file that was downloaded
• The “magic” is that a temporary key is uploaded
onto EC2 by AWS
• Works only out-of-the-box with Amazon Linux 2
• Need to make sure the port 22 is still opened!

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