Creating an AWS EC2 instance

Let’s jump into AWS and create a server then ssh into it!

This article is part of a series 😃. It’s up to you how you want to proceed, either reading this whole thing first and coming back after you need too or starting from the beginning.

• Part 1: SSH Tunnel — AWS EC2
• Part 2: Creating an AWS EC2 instance
• Part 3: Fully Managed MongoDB — DocumentDB
• Part 4: Creating an AWS DocumentDB cluster

In this article we are going to dive into building an AWS EC2 instance and connecting to that EC2 instance. We are going to jump straight into the AWS EC2 console versus go through creating an account and so on. If you would like to learn more about creating an AWS account with some helpful images, checkout our article. First Serverless Project and skip to the section called, Setup your AWS Account.

Creating an AWS EC2 instance

In the following sections we are going to cover a brief walk through of creating an AWS EC2 instance using the AWS Console. First things first, navigate to the AWS EC2 Console.