This blog post will show you how to set up Red hat on AWS.

A full video of the process can be seen below.

• First log into your AWS account
• Click Services and then ec2
• Click launch instance
• Search for red hat and select red hat 8
• Select micro instance (it’s free tier)
• Click next configure instance details
• Click Next Add storage
• Click next add tags
• Click Add tag
• In the Key field type Name and then type a name in the value field for example darren’s server
• Click Next: Configure Security group
• select my IP and click Review and Launch

• Click launch
• Select create a new keypair, give it a name and click download keypair.
•  To connect to our instance we will need to convert the key we downloaded, to do so we will use putty and puttygen they can be downloaded form here: https://www.putty.org/
• Open puttygen and click Load
• Navigate to where you downloaded your key, click all files, click on your key and click open.
• Now click Save Private key, when prompted click yes you want to save without a passphrase.
• Now open putty and enter your public IP into the host name or IP address field, then expand SSH on the left had side.
• Click auth and then browse, navigate to where you saved your key and select it.
• Now click open
• Click Yes
• Enter ec2user as the username and click enter.
• You will now be logged in