Amazon Web Service EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), one of Amazon Web Services' widely-known services, offering businesses the ability to run applications on the public cloud. An EC2 instance is simply a virtual server in Amazon Web Services terminology.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 750 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload. We are the first major cloud provider that supports Intel, AMD, and Arm processors, the only cloud with on-demand EC2 Mac instances, and the only cloud with 400 Gbps Ethernet networking. We offer the best price performance for machine learning training, as well as the lowest cost per inference instances in the cloud. More SAP, high performance computing (HPC), ML, and Windows workloads run on AWS than any other cloud.
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Firstly, search in google aws management console
After searching, then signin into your account
It takes you to the aws console home page
In the console home page at the search bar on the top left hand corner, search for Ec2 instance and press enter
Next, click on launch instances
On the next page, name and add tags. Name it ugoec2
On the top right corner, just before name of account, select desired region. Change the region from the previous Stockholm to London
Next to be added is Operating System image. Under quick start select windows
Under Amazon Machine Image (AMI) select Microsoft Windowers Server 2025 Base -free tier eligible
In instance type, select t3.micro
In key pair name - required select create new key pair
Next name the keypair ugokeypair. leave the east as default and click create key pair
Scroll to Firewalls(security groups) and Allow RDP traffic from anywhere and Allow HTTP traffic from the internet
Leave the rest as default and click launch instance
Instance, successfully launched
On the top left hand corner, select Ec2
Under resources, click on instances
Click on ugoec2 and select the connect button
Under connect to instance, select RDP Client
Scroll down and click on download remote desktop file
In password, click get password
Under private, click upload private key file
Then in the download of your computer select ugokeypair that was downloaded earlier
Then click decrypt password
Copy the dycrpted passwood
Go to the RDP file downloaded earlier and open and connect to it. Then paste password and click ok
A windows server has being connected to
Search for power shell in the windows server and run as administrator to create web server role and type Install-WindowsFeature -Name Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools and press enter
. The above image has the common feature of a web server.
Go to the EC2 created and copy the ip address
Paste the ip address on a web browser to view the internet information services (iis) web server.
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