The Amazon Linux AMI is a supported and maintained Linux image provided by Amazon Web Services for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for applications running on Amazon EC2.
Step 1
Log into your AWS account.
Step 2
Click services and then EC2
Step 3
Click launch Instance
Step 4
Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI
Step 5
Select micro
Step 6
Leave the default values in instance details and click next.
Step 7
If required add more storage and click next add tags
Step 8
Click add tag, type Name in the Key field and then type a server name in the Value feed. Click Next Configure Security group
Step 9
Select my IP for source in the next screen
Step 10
Click review and launch and then launch.
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