AWS : Create AWS EC2 instance (Redhat Enterprise) and connecting to the created instance using PuTTY - Screen shots

Below are the step by step screen shots to create a Redhat enterpise ec2-instance

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) - Instance

NOTE:  Click on images to get the best view 

1)  Locating EC2 module in AWS page

 

2) Launch Instance

 

3) Select OS Type : In this example creating enterprise Redhat (available as free-tier)

 4) Choosing instance

 

5) Configure Instance 

 

6) Add Storage

 

 7) Add tags

 8) Configure Security (In this case, default security)

 

9) Review Instance 

 

 10) Generate a new .pem file

 11) Launch Instance

 12) View Instance Status

 13) .pem file in windows directory

 14) Loading .pem file in PuTTY Gen to convert it as private  .ppk

 15) Saving as .ppk file

 16) Generated .ppk file in windows directory

 17) Connecting to the created instance using PuTTY (DNS of the server is the IP address to give in PuTTY

 18) Loading .ppk file in Auth section of Putty

 19) Connecting to Redhat server from PuTTy Command Line
(default user name for Read hat is : ec2-user)

    For an Amazon Linux AMI, the user name is ec2-user.
    For a RHEL AMI, the user name is ec2-user or root.
    For an Ubuntu AMI, the user name is ubuntu or root.
    For a Centos AMI, the user name is centos.
    For a Fedora AMI, the user name is ec2-user.
    For SUSE, the user name is ec2-user or root.
    Otherwise, if ec2-user and root don't work, check with the AMI provider.

 20) After connection

This way an amzon ec-2 instance can be created and connect to usign putty.