Amazon Web Services - Getting started

Registration:

• After filling basic information, you need to fill billing information (Credit card details) during the registration process.
• After entering billing information, Transaction of Rs. 2 will be initiated to verify your Billing details (Transaction will be cancelled later by Amazon automatically).
• Verification of Phone/Mobile with Automated Call.
• Post verification, your account will be created.

Getting Started with Amazon Web Service Cloud:

• On AWS dashboard, there are different options to start with, Choose - Launch a Virtual Machine option

• Type Name for your instance.
• There will be option to download private key to connect to instance.
• Download private key(*.pem format)
• After you submit, your instance will be launched successfully.
• You can view the instance from Instances option of EC2 Dashboard.

Connecting to Virtual Machine using Putty:

• You need to generate private key using PuttyGen application.
• Load your_key.pem in PuttyGen by clicking Load button.
• Click on generate private key button. (It will warning message to save key without passcode. Select Yes).
• Save the private key (format *.ppk)
• Open Putty terminal window.
• Default user for VM is "ec2-user".
• Check Public DNS of your Virtual machine on EC2 dashboard. Format of DNS is like ëc2-*-2.compute.amazonaws.com
• Enter hostname as : ec2-user@public-DNS of your VM. - ec2-user@ec2-*-us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
• Enter port as 22.
• Open SSH tab on left and on Auth tab - Select private key file as *.ppk file which is generated using PuttyGen tool.
• Click on Open. You should be able to connect to Virtual Machine.

TroubleShooting while connecting to VM:

• By default, IP address for Inbound connections on VM is the one from which you have created Virtual Machine and it is managed by Security Groups.
• Check which Security Group is assigned to your VM in Description at the bottom.
• View Inbound Rules - Set source IP as 0.0.0.0/0 for Port 22 if it is not already set as 0.0.0.0/0
• Now you should be able to connect.

You will see Terminal console with following message:

Using username "ec2-user".
Authenticating with public key "imported-openssh-key"
       __|  __|_  )
       _|  (     /   Amazon Linux AMI
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https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2017.03-release-notes/
1 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available
Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates.
[machine-info/] $

Note:
By default, JDK version .7 is installed on VM. You can change it to JDK version 8