Launch Amazon AWS, EC2 instance in singapore in less than 10 clicks
With launch of new region in Singapore, people in APAC get benefited by launching their instance close to their country (earlier we had only EU and US).
In this blog post i will cover steps to launch a instance in less than 10 steps.
Step1:
Visit https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/home and login
Step 2:
Choose your region, in our case Asia Pacific
Step 3:
Decide which AMI to boot from. For those who are new to AMI, Visualize it as a OS template. For this example we will use an AMI listed in alestic.com
Step 4:
Create a Security Group (equivalent of firewall 
). Let’s just enable SSH at the minimum and if we are planning to expose http then port 80 as well.
Step 5:
Create a key pair (The ssh connections to AMI is key based and hence this step). Store the key pair in your home folder (i created a ~/.ec2 folder to keep all ec2 stuff)
Step 6:
Launch Instance (choose ami, instance type, security group, key pair) and finally fire it.
Step 7:
ssh to the machine and see if its working.
In case if you are interested you can setup the command line API to connect to Amazon AWS (will cover this as a separate post)
happy aws’ing
