AWS stands for Amazon Web Service. It is a service of Amazon.
There are three main services: EC2(Elastic Computer Cloud), RDS(Relational Database Service), and S3(Simple Storage Service). To use the service for free for a year, sign up for AWS.
Click the link above to the main page or below to load directly to the signup page.
https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start/email
You must verify your email address, phone number, and credit/debit card.
When you see this, click the Basic support - Free to use for free.
It is all set.
To log in, we will tick the Root User.
After signing in, you will see this Console Home.
Go to EC2 page.
Select the region where you are. I am currently in Seoul, so I selected Seoul.
Click Launch instance.
Name the instance and choose one of the application and OS Images. I will choose Windows. To make sure you don't have, double-check if it is Free tier eligible.
Also, check the Free tier eligiblity with the instance type. Click create new key pair.
Create your own key pair that is hard to forget. And keypairname.pem file will be created.
In the Network settings, choose the existing security group and the default one.
Other, just leave them as they are. After all, you will see this Summary. If everything is alright, Launch Instance.
When you click the Instances tap, you will see the instance running that you just launched.
Take note of the Public IPv4 address since you will need it often.
To connect, check the box and click Connect.
Here, you will upload the key pair that was downloaded before.
Decrypt the password and take note of the decrypted password. You will not see this password every time, so make sure you know where you took the note of it.
In the Security group menu, click Inbound rules. We will edit the inbound rules.
We will add RDP(Remote Desktop Protocol), Oracle-RDS, and HTTP(Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and save.
In the next post, we will connect this to the Remote Desktop.