HOW TO CREATE A FREE AMAZON WEB SERVER

èSETTING UP A AWS FREE CLOUDè

1.Go to the website à http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

2.Click on create a free account on the right side.

3.Enter your email address and all the details, then click on “create account and continue”.

4.Then it will ask your credit card number and phone verification (but it will not charge for a free account) .

5.After registering, go to the homepage and click on “EC2 virtual web server”.

6.Now in the create instance , click on “Launch instance”.

7.Now you will see the screen showing the different OS available for the virtual machine.

 **Available OS**

Amazon linux AMI, Red hat interprise linux, Ubuntu server 12.04.3 LTS,Ubuntu 13.10, Microsoft windows server 2012.

8. Select you OS (32 or 64-bit) and after selecting  it will show the details like memory available, instance storage, ECU’s, vCPU’s,  Network performance, etc.

**For a ubuntu server (32-bit)**

                               available memoryà0.613 GB

                                                     ECU’sà2

                                                   vCPU’sà1

9.Now click on “Next: Configure instance details” .

10.For a free server select “no preferences” in subnet and click on “Next: Add storage” and it will show 8 GB storage. Now click on “Next: Tag instances.”

11.Enter a Key(name) and Value and click on “Next:Configure security group”.

12.Here it will show protocol(SSH), type(TCP), port range code(22) and source. Click on “Review and Launch” and after it click on “Launch”.

13.Now it will ask you to create a key pair. Enter the key pair and click on “Download” & then select “Launch instance”.

14. A file will be downloaded in your system, and the screen will show your launch status.

15. Go to “how to connect to your linux instance”.

16.Now in your putty configuration go to sessionàType your host IP addressà Give it a nameà Click on saveà select your name and then click on load.

17.Now go to Connectionsà SSHà Authà Browseà and open the file that had been downloaded to your system.

18.Now again go to sessionàsave it àand then double click on your host name.

19.You should have puTTygen installed in your system before proceeding further.

20.After installing puTTygen in your system go to “Connect using puTTy” in the amazon page.

21.Open “puTTy key generator” in your system and click on Loadà Now open the previously downloaded keyàIt will show a success messageàNow click on “Save private key” and save it with a name say ”Amazon key”.

22.Now go back to puTTy àRight Click on it and select “new session”àselect your host name  and load it.

23.Now go to SSHàAuthàBrowse the key which you have just createdàLoad itàA window of PuTTy will ask “Login as”, here you have to enter the username(i.e for ubuntu the username is ubuntu).

24.Now using command

“apt-get install git” you can install github

“apt-get install apache2” install apache and run it.

( i.e it is a WORKING LINUX BOX).

25.Open AWS pageàNetwork & SecurityàSecurity groupsà Select your hostà InboundàCreate a new rule and select HTTP àApply rule change.

26.Now enter your host IP address in your browser and you can see that your site it running.