Connecting to Windows EC2 Instance

Yasas Sandeepa
4 min readJun 1, 2020

Let’s continue our AWS journey. I hope you remembered my previous lessons. If you do not remember, that’s fine. Just click here to check that out.!

How to create an EC2 Instance. & Connecting to Linux | Ubuntu Instance.

Today I want to walk through you guys in Microsoft world. Yes, you right. It’s AWS windows instance. Let’s look at how to configure that.

Little change to the Previous Cover :)

First of all, go to the AWS console and click on create an ec2 instance. Then select Microsoft Windows Server image. (Free tier eligible)

Selecting the Instance type

The next steps all are the same as making the previous Linux | Ubuntu instances. Just generally walk-through it. One important step is step 6 -configure security groups.

step 6 -configure security groups

The protocol using is here is RDP. (Previously we connect to Linux/Ubuntu using SSH) Make sure to configure the source as access from anywhere.

Now go to the next step and check about review details and click on launch instance. Then you get a nice looking popup to save…

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Yasas Sandeepa

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