AWS Security Cookbook

General steps for launching an EC2 instance and doing SSH

We can launch an EC2 instance by following these steps:

1. Go to the EC2 dashboard.
2. Click on Instances from the left sidebar.
3. Click on the Launch Instance button at the top of the page.
4. Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-00dc79254d0461090 (64-bit x86).
5. On the Choose an Instance Type page, set Type to t2.micro and click Next: Configure Instance Details.

6. Within the Configure Instance Details page, either choose a custom VPC or the default one. You can also add user data that will be executed during the launch.
7. We can use the default configuration in the Add Storage page. Click Next: Add Tags.
8. On the Add Tags page, add a tag with Key set to Name. For Value, enter ...