Go to ‘https://titus-courses.signin.aws.amazon.com‘ in a Web browser.
Select ‘My Account/Console’ menu option ‘AWS Management Console.”
Log in with username ‘srop-student’ and the password that the instructors give you.
Click on EC2 (upper left).
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-999d49f0’ into the search box and click “search”. You should see “starcluster-base-ubuntu-”. Select it, and hit Continue.
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.
Then, go to Logging into your new instance “in the cloud” (Windows version).
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