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Creating EC2 instances

In the AWS console main screen, we will need to choose EC2 in order to start a new EC2 instance:

The next screen will expose lots of different options to manage EC2 instances. For now, what we need to do is to click on the Launch Instance button. You will note that the AWS region is shown here:

Afterward, we will get to select the image to use as our virtual server on the cloud. An Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is an acronym to describe an Amazon virtual server image combined with all the information it needs to be launched. ...

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