Amazon EC2

Tags

• They are used to label resources which can be further used to query and filter
• Follow atleast the following tags for every resourcs

environment: dev
project: learning
purpose: learning

Credentials

• Username in AWS is fixed and is from AMI.
• AWS gives an option to set key pair for EC2 instance
• Credential types:
  • Username and Password
  • Username and Key
• Key Pair is collection of
  • Private key
  • Public Key
• AWS has two options
  • import your key
  • create a key pair
• Linux:
  • We can use the private key directly
• Windows:
  • We need to generate password from private key
• Generating a key pair from AWS
  
  
• Lets create a keypair called as november
  
  
  
• Importing existing key pair to AWS
  • Generate key in your local machine if you dont have it already ssh-keygen
    
  • in your homdir
    • private key ~/.ssh/id_rsa
    • public key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
      
      
      

Create a redhat linux with imported key pair

• Screenshots
  
  

Create a Windows Server with created key pair

• Screenshots
  
• Execute mstsc -v <publcip>
  
• Get credentials
  
  
  
  
  
  

RDP

• RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
  • PORT: 3389
• client: Remote desktop
  
• use the following command mstsc -v <ipaddress>

SSH Commands

• SSH (Secure Shell)
  • PORT: 22
• SSH command with key

ssh -i <path to private key> <username>@<ipaddress>

• SSH command searches for key in default location ~/.ssh
• SSH Command with password

ssh <username>@<ipaddress>