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AWS: How to Create a secure key pair.

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AWS provided a public-key which is cryptography to secure the login information of our instance. We can specify the name of the key pair and when we launch our instance, we can provide the private key to obtain the administrative password for our window instance so that we can login using RDP. As we have to create one using the Amazon EC2 console. Note that if we plan to launch instances in multiple regions we needed to create a key pair for each region To create a key pair. a). Sign in to AWS using the URL that you created in the previous section. b).  From the AWS dashboard, choose EC2 to open the Amazon EC2 console. c) . From the navigation bar, select a region for the key pair.  We c an select any region that's available to you, However, key pairs are specific to a region; for example, if you plan to launch an instance in the US West (Oregon) region, you must crea...

AWS: Launching Windows Instances

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Overview The instance is an Amazon EBS-backed instance . You can specify the Availability Zone for which your instance to be created, or let Amazon will  select an Availability Zone automatically. When you launch your instance, we can secure it by specifying a new key pair or existing key pair and security group. When ever you connect to your instance, you must specify the same private key pair that you specified when launching your instance. To complete this tutorial, perform the following tasks: Launch an Instance. Connect to Your Instance. Clean Up Your Instance. Prerequisites Before you begin, be sure that you've completed the steps in Setting Up with Amazon EC2. Launch an Instance You can launch a Windows instance using the AWS Management Console as described in the following procedure. This tutorial is intended to help you launch your first instance quickly, so it doesn't cover all possible options.  To...

AWS: Introduction to AWS (Amazon Web Services)

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Considering that you don't have an account with AWS ( Amazon Web Services) this Demo is divided into 5 steps 1. Creating/Sign Up for AWS account. 2. Creat ing an IAM user . 3. Creat ing a secure key pair. 4. Creat ing a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 5. Creat ing a security group for access. 1. Creating/Sign Up for AWS account When we sign up for the AWS account, we get automatic  access for all the services in the AWS, which includes the Amazon EC2 and we are charged for only the services which we chose and use. With Amazon EC2 we will pay for that what we use and if we are a  new AWS customer and we can get started with Amazon EC2 for free. If we have an AWS account already, we can skip the next task or else we can continue with the account creation. You can check the AWS Free Tier information here http://aws.amazon.com/free/ To create an AWS account, we needed to access the URL a). Connect to the URL ht...