getting started on aws
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Neill Turner's slides from the AWS User Group workshop 24th June 2009. More at www.ec2dream.comTRANSCRIPT
AWS Getting StartedNeill Turner
www.ec2dream.com
Getting Started Options
http://www.ec2dream.com/search/label/Getting%20Started
• EC2Dream System Admin.• AWS Management Console Tutorial. • ElasticFox.• Amazon Getting Started Guide.
AWS Management Console
Tutorial at http://ec2dream.webs.com/AWS-Management-Console.pdf
• Introduction - Setting Up.• #1: Running an Instance. • #2: Bundling an Instance.• #3: Creating an Elastic Block Store(EBS)
Volume.• #4: Associate an Elastic IP address with
an instance.• Appendix #1: PuTTY.
Introduction – Setting Up
• AWS Account http://aws.amazon.com
• EC2 Account http://aws.amazon.com/ec2
• S3 Account http://aws.amazon.com/s3
• Logon to AWS Management Console https://console.aws.amazon.com and create a keypair, saving generated file in secure place.
#1: Running an Instance
• Step 1: Setting up a Security Group.
• Step 2: Choosing an AMI. (I recommend the RightScale small instance AMI ami-cb52b6a2).
• Step 3: Launching an Instance.
EC2Dream System AdminInstallation - Assumed you have a windows PC. If linux use ssh to access your instance.1. Download from www.ec2dream.com2. Unzip this zip to a folder say C:\EC2Dream (No spaces in directory!) and follow
reame.txt file3. Go to Ruby folder and run the Ruby installer ruby186-27_rc2.exe.4. Also on the Ruby folder run to add Ruby components (i.e. gems). gem_install_right_aws.bat gem_install_capistrano.bat1. Correct known problem with capistrano. Change C:/Program Files/ruby/bin/cap (or whatever location Ruby was installed in)
line that reads: require_gem 'capistrano', version to gem 'capistrano', version 1. Edit the run.bat file and set the EC2DREAM_HOME to the folder of the EC2Dream
install (i.e. C:\EC2DREAM)2. Start a command window and cd to EC2DREAM_HOME and execute run.bat to start
EC2DREAM GUI tool.
EC2Dream System Admin
Tutorial at http://www.ec2dream.webs.com/gettingstarted/
1.Follow Creating an Environment Creating an Environment Creating a KeyPair (add to settings)
1.Then you should see your server and be able to access it by clicking on server in the tree and then click on the terminal icon.