History: EC2
Preview of version: 4
- Get amazon account
- Activate S3
- Activate EC2
- install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
- install http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609
- Restart Firefox
- Configure account in ElasticFox
- Click on credentials
- Enter Access Key ID and Secret Access Key from your Amazon.com account
- You should see some AMIs appearing
- Go to tab "Key pairs"
- Click on green button to create a new pair
- This will generate a *.pem file, that you should save on your hard drive
- Go to AMIs and instances,
- pick ami-7806e211 (for example)
- Right-click and launch
- Make sure KeyPair is the one your created before
- All other options can stay the dfaults
- You shoud see something new in "Your instances"
- Be patient while it boots up
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