Launching an instance

The first thing you need to do is go to the AWS EC2 interface.

  1. Now click on the Launch Instance button, which will bring you to the following screen:
  1. This is where you can choose the image to run. As you can see, the image is the operating system that will run on top of the EC2 Instance. In Amazon jargon, this image is called Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and you can create your own ones and save them for later usage, allowing you to ship prebuilt software. For now, choose Ubuntu Server 16.04 by clicking on Select.
  2. The next screen is about the size of the image. AWS offers quite a big variety of sizes and types of images. ...

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