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Provisioning instances

Provisioning instances

- I'm going to demonstrate how to provision a Linux instance and log into it, and a Windows instance and log into that. Let's go ahead and head into our AWS Management console. I have logged in here into my free trial account using my specific IAM credentials. We are going to go to the EC2 service and we are going to launch an instance. We can see we have zero instances running, zero elastic IPs, a single security group. This was not created by me, it is just here as a default security group for a VPC. All right, back to our instances. Let's launch an instance. We have a button in the upper right, a big orange button, and we are going to call this LiveDemos. So I'm launching this instance. It's going to be an Ubuntu instance, and I'm going to do all of the demos in this course using this particular instance. Once I have selected Ubuntu here we can see our dropdown for the AMI that's going to be chosen. We have these two Ubuntu AMIs that do fall into the free tier category. I'm going…

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