Amazon provides a free server for a year to try out its infrastructure. Let me show present a step-by-step instruction on setting up your own server (Linux Server).
Step 1
Create Amazon Account.
You would need a valid Credit Card, Telephone & Email address to proceed from here.
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html
Note: A charge of $1 will be made on your card to authenticate your card. If any further services are used other than the free services. A monthly charge will be made as per the usage.
verify the email address and proceed to https://console.aws.amazon.com
Step 2
Sign up for Amazon EC2 to create your VPS server on Amazon. You should be at the below page, if you're following the instruction.
Here's the summary of what Amazon offers as free. 750 hours (24*31 = 744 hours ) of a ~600MB physical memory machine is free as part of the offer. Otherwise, you have to shell out $0.02 for every hour, 744*0.02 = ~15/month and ~$180/month.
You save $180 on your first year. Lets get out of the math and start working on the server.
Fill up the credit card information and sign up for Amazon EC2 service. Lets do serious work from here.
Step 3
Launch your server
Click on the "Launch Instance" button on the EC2 home page
You will see choice of servers, there's only two choice for free servers. Lets choose a 32 bit AMI (Amazon Machine Image) base. A pre-installed Cent OS flavored custom amazon image.
Choose the t1.micro instance for free service.
On the next screen leave everything as default. Make sure you choosing "Stop" as Shutdown Behavior in the screen.
Next screen is to create a name tag for your server. If you have several servers lined up this shall help to find what server is this?.
Create a new key pair. Keep it safe, Later they will be used to login to your machine.
Security group lets you seal your and others network access to the server. Lets leave it to "default"
Your configuration wizard shows the final summary of the server specification.
Your server is ready. Selecting the server will show the public DNS of the server.
Step 4
Assign an IP to the server. Amazon provides IP addresses under a different service name called Elastic IP. IP address is free until its assigned to an server.
On the left column, choose the "Elastic IPs" link.
As a next step, Click "Allocate New Address". A pop window comes up and select "Yes, Allocate" to allocate the new IP address.
A new IP address is reserved.
Click the "Associate Address" to link the IP address to the server that we created.
Here's the reconfigured server information.
This ends the server setup on Amazon EC2. Please continue reading for connecting the linux server and configuring them as webserver.
Step 1
Create Amazon Account.
You would need a valid Credit Card, Telephone & Email address to proceed from here.
https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/registration/index.html
Note: A charge of $1 will be made on your card to authenticate your card. If any further services are used other than the free services. A monthly charge will be made as per the usage.
verify the email address and proceed to https://console.aws.amazon.com
Step 2
Sign up for Amazon EC2 to create your VPS server on Amazon. You should be at the below page, if you're following the instruction.
Here's the summary of what Amazon offers as free. 750 hours (24*31 = 744 hours ) of a ~600MB physical memory machine is free as part of the offer. Otherwise, you have to shell out $0.02 for every hour, 744*0.02 = ~15/month and ~$180/month.
You save $180 on your first year. Lets get out of the math and start working on the server.
Fill up the credit card information and sign up for Amazon EC2 service. Lets do serious work from here.
Step 3
Launch your server
Click on the "Launch Instance" button on the EC2 home page
You will see choice of servers, there's only two choice for free servers. Lets choose a 32 bit AMI (Amazon Machine Image) base. A pre-installed Cent OS flavored custom amazon image.
Choose the t1.micro instance for free service.
On the next screen leave everything as default. Make sure you choosing "Stop" as Shutdown Behavior in the screen.
Next screen is to create a name tag for your server. If you have several servers lined up this shall help to find what server is this?.
Create a new key pair. Keep it safe, Later they will be used to login to your machine.
Security group lets you seal your and others network access to the server. Lets leave it to "default"
Your configuration wizard shows the final summary of the server specification.
Your server is ready. Selecting the server will show the public DNS of the server.
Step 4
Assign an IP to the server. Amazon provides IP addresses under a different service name called Elastic IP. IP address is free until its assigned to an server.
On the left column, choose the "Elastic IPs" link.
As a next step, Click "Allocate New Address". A pop window comes up and select "Yes, Allocate" to allocate the new IP address.
Here's the reconfigured server information.
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