2016 February AWS tutorial main page¶
This is the documentation for a workshop on Amazon Web Services, offered at UC Davis (and broadcast online) on March 7, 2016. The workshop page is here.
Full table of contents:¶
- Start an Amazon Web Services computer:
- 0. Select “EC2 - virtual servers in the cloud”
- 1. Switch to zone US West (N California)
- 2. Click on “Launch instance.”
- 3. Select “Community AMIs.”
- 4. Search for ami-05384865 (ubuntu-wily-15.10-amd64-server)
- 5. Click on “Select.”
- 6. Choose m4.large.
- 7. Click “Review and Launch.”
- 8. Click “Launch.”
- 9. Select “Create a new key pair.”
- 10. Enter name ‘amazon-key’.
- 11. Click “Download key pair.”
- 12. Click “Launch instance.”
- 13. Select View instances (lower right)
- 14. Bask in the glory of your running instance
- Log into your instance with the UNIX shell
- Log into your instance from a Mac or Linux machine
- Log into your instance from a Windows machine
- Configure your instance firewall
- Running RStudio Server in the cloud
- Creating your own Amazon Machine Image
- Working with persistent storage: volumes and snapshots
- Terminating your instance
- Things to mention and discuss
Indices and tables¶
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