Amazon EC2 Service : launch a windows server on AWS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate them from common failure scenarios.
Step-by-Step Guide to launch a windows server on AWS
Step 1: Login to AWS Management Console.
Step 2: Select a region from the drop down.
Step 3: Click EC2 under Compute section. This will take you to EC2 dashboard.
Step 4: Select Launch Instance and hence select an AMI, for our example in this, we will be selecting a Windows 2016 Server Instance which falls under free tier.
Step 5: Once you select your desired AMI, select your instance type, this is basically where you decide how much computing power you need to start, since ours is a small application, we shall suffice with the free tier.
Step 6: Configure all the details and then click on add storage.
Step 7: Here you will be configuring your storage devices, once done click on tag instance.
Step 8: Here you will be tagging your instance, this is how your instance will be identified.
Step 9: Now you will be configuring your security group.
Step 10: Check all your settings, once verified launch your instance!
Step 11: In the next step you will be prompted for a key pair, create one and download at a handy location.
Step 12: Select your instance and click on Connect.
Step 13: Go to connect and download remote desktop file.
Step 14: Select the key-pair that you downloaded, then click decrypt password.
Step 15: Open remote desktop file and paste the decrypted password.
Step 16: Congratulations! Windows Server on EC2 at your service!
