How To: Successfully set up Amazon EC2 micro instance
Amazon Web Services is a very rich arsenal of web services. Surprisingly, using them is really easy and simple. I tried my first hands on Amazon's Elastic Cloud, in layman's terms, it is a server I tried to set up a AWS micro instance on Amazon EC2. The setup is very simple and we can set a system running in just few minutes. I could also quickly set up a tomcat server running on it. I will quickly list down the steps that I followed. (1) From EC2 console launch a new Instance. For quick start select any AMI ( Amazon Machine Image) that suits your need. It can later be changed or upgraded. (2) Once an AMI is selected, fill in the details related to instances (Micro instance's usage falls under free tier for the first year), kernel, ram, monitoring details etc. (3) Next, create a key-value (optional) (4) Select proper security group. (This is also important to keep your instance secure. Once I got my instance hacked due to careless firewall settings ). Don't ...