Getting started with Amazon EC2
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Sign up for Amazon EC2
- Goto http://www.amazon.com/
- Click on EC2
- Create an Account. You can use an existing Amazon account and an existing credit card information.
- Finally, you will get a confirmation email from Amazon letting you know that you have successfully created an account.
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Getting your Credentials
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Access id/secret key
- Goto your access key page
- Your access key id and secret key (equiv to login/pass) is automatically generated for you. Make a note of it. You will need this when making any calls to your service.
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Certificate
Generate a new certificate and download public/private key in your ~/.ec2 directory.
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Start building your first application!
http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2008-02-01/GettingStartedGuide/?ref=get-started
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Download EC2 Tools
mkdir ~/software/ec2
Add the following lines to your .bash_profile.
export EC2_HOME=$HOME/software/ec2 export PATH=$PATH:$EC2_HOME/bin
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Create an image, boot it up, ssh to the instance, access it over the web
- Create an image using a default public image
- Generate a public/private key to the image
- Start it up using the amazon tools
- ssh to the image
- Point your web browser to it
