COMPUTER S AP Compute AP Computer Science - IT 477 Converge networks Illinois State University School of information technology Lab 1 Part I: Hands-on Lab Procedure 1. Create a AWS account

COMPUTER S AP Compute AP Computer Science - IT 477 Converge networks Illinois State University School of information technology Lab 1 Part I: Hands-on Lab Procedure 1. Create a AWS account COMPUTER S AP Compute AP Computer Science IT 477 Converge networks Illinois State University School of information technology Lab 1 Part I: Hands-on Lab Procedure 1. Create a AWS account e. Sel ect BASIC support plan f. After Signing Up, you should see the following page. 2. Creating a Linux Instance a. Sign in to (Under “My Account”, Click “AWS Management Console” b. You should see a console displayed like this c. Under “Compute”, Click “EC2” d. On the following page, click “Launch Instance” e. On Step 1, select “Amazon Linux AMI 2017.03.0 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami- 3883a55d” (the string 3883a55d after “ami” is dynamically generated by AWS) f. On Step 2, select the Free-tier Eligible Instance Type g. For Steps 3, 4, 5 go with the default Options and click Next h. On Step 6 “Configure Security Group”, click “Add Rule” and From the drop down menu choose “Type” as HTTP. i. On Step 7, after clicking Launch a dialog box should pop up asking to create key pair. j. Click Create Key Pair. k. Enter a name (e.g., IT276) for the new key pair in the Key pair name field of the Create Key Pair dialog box as shown above, and then click Download Key Pair. The private key file “.pem” (e.g., IT) should be downloaded and should be saved in a safe place. Please remember the file location! l. You can now click “Launch Instance” and then click again “view instances”. m. You can now click “connect” to access your instance. You can either use Putty (a SSH client) from a Windows OS machine, or directly use “terminal” from a mac or Linux machine. A screen like below should assist you in connect with your VM Save the DNS name of your Linux instance. E.g., 3. Getting into your VM a. Windows(Use Putty) i. Use this link to see how to use putty to connect to your instance