Amazon EC2 – Ubuntu Quickstart Guide

You will need

1. A web browser
2. An Amazon AWS Account
3. Download PuTTY

Instructions

1. Create a new key pair in AWS
   https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#c=EC2&s=KeyPairs

   It will automatically download the key for you – go put it somewhere safe (c:\amazon\keys\your-key.pem)

2. Load up puttygen.exe
3. Conversions… Import Key
4. Import c:\amazon\keys\your-key.pem
5. Save Public Key:
   c:\amazon\keys\PublicKey.ppk
6. Save Private Key
   c:\amazon\keys\PrivateKey.ppk

   Ideally set a password but not required – what this means is that when you go to connect and it uses your key it will ask for this password

7. Launch and instance from AWS
   https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#s=Home
8. Choose Community AMI

   Search for  ami-480df921 (It may take a while – be patient)
   This is Canonical’s 32-Bit Ubuntu 10.04

9. Click Select then choose a t1.micro (or relevant size) instance
10. Keep the rest of the defaults but when it asks for keypair – use the one you created in step 1 from the drop-down
11. Go to the end and it will launch…
12. In your Instances
    https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home#s=Instances

    Select your instance then Instance Actions then Connect.
    Copy the hostname

13. In PuTTY paste the hostname into the Hostname or IP box
14. Under SSH… Auth browse to c:\amazon\keys\PrivateKey.ppk
15. Then back under Sessions click Connect
16. When prompted log in as “ubuntu”