Signing Up to AWS and Creating your First EC2 Instance — A Step by Step Guide
There are lots of sources about how to start AWS EC2, but this abundance can be intimidating and confusing. During the last summer, when I tried to find a hosting solution for Remotespots, I briefly tried AWS EC2, but then switched to Eapps since they speed things up.
What you need to do in three steps is that
- Sign up to AWS, connect to AWS (preferable with Amazon EC2 API Tools)
- Create an instance (via API tools or the web console)
- Connect to that instance via SSH.
These are the steps that works for me,
1. Sign up AWS — http://aws.amazon.com/
2. Follow the steps at that link, and create X.509 certificate (also download private key when doing that)
3. Create an instance from the https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/ (Don’t forget to save the private key .pem file while creating the instance)
5. Follow the steps here http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2 for connecting to the instance via SSH.
Links that helps 
- AWS console – https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
- AWS portal — https://aws-portal.amazon.com/
- Starting Amazon EC2 with Mac OS X — http://www.robertsosinski.com/2008/01/26/starting-amazon-ec2-with-mac-os-x/
- How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2 — http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-getting-started-with-amazon-ec2
- Connect to Your Linux/UNIX Instance — http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/GettingStartedGuide/
