Launching an instance
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Go to “EC2” dashboard.
[!NOTE]
This is a direct link to “eu-central-1” availability zone. So you might wanna just search it.
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Click on “Launch instance”:

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Give it a name:

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Choose an appropriate OS for your use case, here I am choosing Ubuntu:

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Specify how much resource you need (Instance type), here I choose one that is free.

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If you wanna be able to connect to your EC2 instance choose/create a key pair, here I’ll use the one that I have created before (“AmazonLinuxEC2InstanceKeyPair”):

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If you specified a key pair in the previous step now you need to also choose/create a security group where SSH and port 80 is open. Thus we can access our EC2 instance. in the network settings section:

[!NOTE]
If you’ve created a new security group you need to add SSH to your inbound rules in “security groups” dashboard.
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Then you need to configure your EC2 instance’s storage:

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Lastly click on “Launch instance”.

[!NOTE]
We did not change any advance setting here but you can set them to what serves your needs.