Virtual machines on AWS
- AWS has a service called as EC2 which allows us to create virtual machines
- Terminology used in AWS
- ec2 instance => virtual machine created.
- AMI => Amazon Machine Image
- EBS Volume => Disk
- instance type => CPU, RAM (Hardware Generations)
- Subnet decides the AZ
- EC2 on a broader note supports
- linux/unix
- Windows
- Mac
- EC2 is used for servers not desktops
- When we create ec2 instance, many things are required
- Amazon Machine Image
- EBS Volume
- instance type
- key pair
- Subnet
- Elastic ip (public ip)
- Security Group (Firewall)
- AWS does not support password based logins for default AMIs
Creating a Windows Server on AWS
- Windows require passwords. AWS directly doesnot support passwords, Rather in the case of Windows aws uses a keypair to generate password.
- Create a new key pair
- Select a Windows AMI
- Select instance type
- Select/create security group
- default settings ensure public ip is allocated, ebs volume with default size, az is random
- Watch classroom recording for
- windows server
- redhat server
- debian
- Now terminate the instances
- Exercise: In azure create a linux server, windows server
