2016 February AWS tutorial main page

This is the documentation for a workshop on Amazon Web Services, offered at UC Davis (and broadcast online) on March 7, 2016. The workshop page is here.

Start here: Start an Amazon Web Services computer:

Click here to go to the workshop etherpad

Full table of contents:

• Start an Amazon Web Services computer:
  • 0. Select “EC2 - virtual servers in the cloud”
  • 1. Switch to zone US West (N California)
  • 2. Click on “Launch instance.”
  • 3. Select “Community AMIs.”
  • 4. Search for ami-05384865 (ubuntu-wily-15.10-amd64-server)
  • 5. Click on “Select.”
  • 6. Choose m4.large.
  • 7. Click “Review and Launch.”
  • 8. Click “Launch.”
  • 9. Select “Create a new key pair.”
  • 10. Enter name ‘amazon-key’.
  • 11. Click “Download key pair.”
  • 12. Click “Launch instance.”
  • 13. Select View instances (lower right)
  • 14. Bask in the glory of your running instance
• Log into your instance with the UNIX shell
  • Log into your instance via the UNIX shell (Mac/Linux)
  • Log into your instance via MobaXTerm (Windows)
• Log into your instance from a Mac or Linux machine
  • Change permissions and execute ssh
  • Successful login
• Log into your instance from a Windows machine
• Configure your instance firewall
  • 1. Select ‘Security Groups’
  • 2. Select ‘Inbound’
  • 3. Select ‘Edit’
  • 4. Select ‘Add Rule’
  • 5. Enter rule information
  • 6. Select ‘Save’.
  • 7. Return to the Instances page.
• Running RStudio Server in the cloud
  • 1. Start up an Amazon instance
  • 2. Configure your network firewall
  • 3. Log in via the shell
  • 4. Set a password for the ‘ubuntu’ account
  • 5. Install R and the gdebi tool
  • 6. Download & install RStudio Server
  • 7. Open your RStudio Server instance
• Creating your own Amazon Machine Image
  • 1. Actions, Create image
  • 2. Fill out name and description
  • 3. Wait for it to become available
• Working with persistent storage: volumes and snapshots
  • Creating persistent volumes to store data
  • Creating snapshots of volumes
• Terminating your instance
  • 1. Select Actions, Instance State, Terminate
  • 2. Agree to terminate.
  • 3. Verify status on your instance page.
• Things to mention and discuss
  • When do disks go away?
  • What are you charged for?
  • Regions vs zones:

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

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