# Create your first AWS Cloud Computer --- ### Prerequisites - A computer with a browser and wifi - Access to your email (you'll request a one time password to access an AWS account we provide for you) - No AWS experience necessary - There are no costs and you do not have to divulge any personal information - We'll ask you complete a survey before we finish. We love feedback and want to know what else you want to experience. (optional) --- ### Learning Objectives Here's what you'll do during the event. - Navigate into an AWS Account - Configure a virtual machine in the cloud, its called an Amazon EC2 instance (EC2 = Elastic Compute Cloud) - Launch your EC2 instance with a webserver using some code provided - Access your webserver - Learn how to diagnose, reconfigure and update your EC2 instance --- ### Build a Server in the Cloud You're going to create a web server that you can access over the internet. Here's how you'll do that: ---- #### Access an AWS Account - Access the AWS Event Engine at dashboard.eventengine.run - Enter the event hash which your hosts will share with you - Login using a One Time Password OTP emailed to your preferred email address - Open the AWS Console ---- #### Build an Amazon EC2 Instance - Navigate to EC2 > Instances in the AWS Console - Click Launch instance - Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page, select the Amazon Linux 2 64bit (x86) AMI - Step 2: Leave t2.micro selected, and - click Next: Configure Instance Details ---- ##### Configure the Network On Step 3: Configure Instance Details page make the following selections: - Network: default - Subnet: No preference - Auto-assign Public IP: Enable - Expand Advanced details, and - paste the following bash script into the user data box: ---- ``` #!/bin/bash yum update -y yum install -y httpd yum install -y wget chkconfig httpd on cd /var/www/html service httpd start ``` <div style="page-break-after: always"></div> ---- ##### Configure Storage and Naming Click Step 4: Next: Add Storage, and then click Step 5: Next: Add Tags. - On the Add Tags page, select Add Tag then add the following: - Key: Name - Value: Webserver ---- ##### Configure the Security Group Click Step 6: Next: Configure Security Group. - On the Configure Security Group page, click Create a new security group, and set the following values: - Security group name: myvm - Description: my ec2 instance - Click Add Rule, and set the following values: - Type: HTTP - Source: My IP ---- ##### Check and Launch your Server Click Step 7: Review and Launch, and then Launch. - In the key pair dialog, select Proceed without a key pair. - Select the check box to acknowledge we won't be assigning a key pair to this instance --- ### Manage the EC2 Instance - Once the instance is running - Click View Instance - When you see your EC2 instane has successfully passed both status checks, inspect the following: ---- #### Reboot your Server - Note the IPv4 public IP of the instance. - With the instance selected, - click Actions > Instance State > Reboot. - Does the IP change? ---- #### Stop and Start your Server - Click Actions > Instance State > Stop. - After it’s stopped, - click Actions > Instance State > Start. - Does the IP change? ---- #### Resize your Server - Click Actions > Instance State > Stop. - Once it’s stopped, - click Actions > Instance Settings > Change Instance Type. - Change the instance type to t3.small, and click Apply. ---