This thread discusses the steps to launch a Linux instance using AWS Management Console.
- To launch an Amazon EC2 instance, open the Amazon EC2 console using the URL https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2
- This will take you the following page.
- Click on Launch Instance
- Select The Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Select the 64 bit Amazon Linux AMI. Marked
- Select t1.micro from the instance type page. Click on Next: Configure Instance Details. This will navigate you to the "Configure Instance Details" Page
- Click on Review and Launch.
- Select "Make General Purpose SSD the default boot volume for all instances from the console going forward " as the option.
- Click on Edit Security Groups from the Review Instance Launch screen
- Select an existing security group. Select the check box and click on Review and Launch
- Click on Launch
- Choose and Existing Key pair if the key pair exists OR create another pair of key.
- Click on Launch Instance
- On the Resource screen, click on Running Instance
