Go to ‘https://aws.amazon.com‘ in a Web browser.
Select ‘My Account/Console’ menu option ‘AWS Management Console.”
Log in with your username & password.
Click on EC2 (upper left).
Many of the resources that we use are hosted by Amazon on the East coast. Make sure that your dashboard has ‘N. Virginia’ on the upper right:
If it doesn’t say N. Virginia, click on it and select “US East (N. Virginia)”.
Select “Launch Instance” (midway down the page), and select “Quick Launch Wizard”.
On this page,
Note: You only need to create a new key pair the first time you’re doing this – you can select the one you created the first time, if you still have a copy of the key file you downloaded stored somewhere.
Enter ‘ami-c17ec8a8’ into the search box and click “search”. Select it, and hit Continue.
(If it doesn’t show up, exit the wizard and make sure you’re in US East zone – see upper right of EC2 console.)
On this page, “Edit details” until it looks like the below image –
Then, click “Launch”.
Go to the ‘instances’ list and make sure your particular instance is running.
You’ll need the hostname of your new computer, on the bottom (ec2-...) – we suggest selecting this and copying it somewhere.
Now go to Adjusting security rules.