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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