Provisioning an instance on Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is a business unit within Amazon.com specializing in providing cloud services.Of all other offerings, it provides IT Infrastructure as a service through its well known service EC2.Amazon EC2 provides a scalable computing capacity which is much economic than building a private infrastructure.                       

steps to Provision instances on AWS

AWS management portal can be accessed from http://aws.amazon.com/ from where we can login to our account and avail the services provided by AWS.

Click on signing to console>>Enter your username and password

Username:****@***.com

Password:*************

 

Once logged in to the console, We need to setup our IAM user and a VPC(virtual cloud) that will be used later in our future work to integrate AWS with VMware private cloud.

Steps to Create IAM user:

From the AWS console:

•  click on 'Identity and Access Management'
• Create individual IAM users
• Manage users
• Enter User name
• Create

Creating VPC:

Click 'Services' on top left of the screen>>VPC>>Start VPC wizard>>select>>Provide VPC name and subnet values>>Create

 

Now the basic settings on the AWS management portal has been done and we are ready to provision our first instance.

Creating a new instance:

Click again on 'Services>>EC2>>Launch Instance>>Chose AMI image(RedHat )

Chose instance type(General Purpose-t2.micro)>>Next: configure instance details>>Select

Number of instances: 1

Network  : Choose your vpc

Subnet:      Public Subnet