Instruction Manual for

Launch of Amazon Web

Services Linux Virtual
Machine Instance
Version 1.0
August 2014

Contents
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Creation of a Linux Virtual Machine Instance ................................................................................. 2

Accessing your Linux Virtual Machine Instance from your Windows Desktop .............................. 7

1 Creation of a Linux Virtual Machine Instance

Note:
This manual requires a cloud hosting account with Amazon Web Services

1.1 On your Windows Desktop, open your prefferred web browser such as
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera
1.2 On your browser, visit the website for Amazon Web Services
(http://aws.amazon.com)

1.3 Login to your Amazon Web Services account

1.4 From the navigation bar, view the options in the region selector and
set it to Asia Pacific (Singapore)
User

Note:
Ensure the region setting is being set to Asia Pacific (Singapore) before moving on the next steps
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1.5 Select EC2 under the list of Amazon Web Services

1.6 Press the Launch Instance button to create Instance

1.7 For the AMI section, select the Community AMIs

1.8 In the search box, enter ami-eafca7b8 to find the AMI version

1.9 Select the Ubuntu-trusty-14.04-i386 version

1.10 Choose the Micro instance for the instance type

1.11 Keep the Default Setting for Step 3, 4 and 5

1.12 Create the security group with the following setting

Type
SSH
HTTP

Protocol
TCP
TCP

Port Range
22
80

1.13 Select Launch button to create instance

1.14 Create or choose an existing key pair for accessing the instance. Save
the pem key pair file somewhere on the computer for later use.

1.15 Instance successfully created

2 Accessing your Linux Virtual Machine Instance from your

Windows Desktop
2.1 Download and install PuTTY and PuTTYgen version 0.62 from the
PuTTY download page
* Download page: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

2.2 Converting Private Key Using PuTTYgen

2.2.1

Open up PuTTygen and select Conversion -> Import Key. Locate and select
the .pem file that was saved earlier when launching an AWS instance.

2.2.2

Enter the passphrase for the private key we going to create and again to
confirm it.

2.2.3

Save the generated .ppk private key file somewhere in the computer.

2.3 Copy the public DNS at AWS

2.4 Paste the public DNS into the Host Name column

Note:
Ensure the settings for Connection type is SSH and Port is 22.

Note:
Once you stopped the Amazon Web Services Instance, the Host Name will be changed, and
different from the initial input of the host name

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2.5 Setting up for the SSH authentication

1) On the left side of the putty settings, navigate to Auth which is under SSH
2) Browse for the .ppk file that is saved earlier when generated with PuTTYgen.
3) Click Open to launch.

2.6 Select Yes to cache the host key when launching for the first time

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2.7 Login as Ubuntu

2.8 Enter your passphrase that was entered in PuTTygen

2.9 Successfully access the server. Proceed to install CKAN.

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