AWS Classroomnotes 15/Feb/2023

EC2

• Components of EC2
  • CPU and RAM
    • Instance Size: We select cpu count and RAM size
    • Instance Family: Hardware specifications (Intel/AMD)
    • Purpose: Choose the best size by identifying purpose
  • Storage (Virtual Disk = Elastic Block Storage)
    • Speed and Size: EBS Volume type and Size
    • Where it should exist: EBS volume and Instance Storage
  • OS: Amazon Machine Image
  • Remote Connection:
    • Windows:
      • RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol): RDP helps connecting windows servers using ipaddress & username, password
    • Linux:
      • SSH (Secure Shell): SSH helps connection Linux Servers
    • Authentication Types:
      • Password Based Authentication: In AWS Password Based Authentication for ec2 instances is disble by default.
      • Key Based Authentication: Key Based Authentication

• Key Based Authentication:
  • AWS Uses Private Key and Public Key based on RSA and ED
  • Private key can be downloaded in two formats
    • pem (used by any ssh client)
    • ppk (used by putty based clients)
• Lets create a key pair
  
  
  
  
• Lets Create a Windows 2019 Server
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Now lets connect to the remote machine
  
  
  
  
  
• To connect to remote desktop open run command mstsc -v <public ip>
  
  
  
• For Cleanup: Terminate instance.