Amazon is not only a company with the largest e-commerce in the world, but it has also expanded into other areas of commerce such as Cloud Computing (Cloud) in which it is already a benchmark.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most complete cloud platforms rivaling others like Google and Microsoft.

AWS incorporates a wide range of amenities and features such as: storage, database, artificial intelligence, application development, etc. they forfeited their services.

Amazon EC2

One of the services developed by Amazon AWS is called Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud).

EC2 give users the ability to create virtual cloud environment. That is, we can have our own 100% configurable server to perform any task.

The concept of virtual servers in the cloud often confused with VPS. Both have a lot of relationship however they have differences which should be clarified:

• A The cloud server is fully tolerant of hardware failures since its infrastructure allows that if the hardware fails it can continue running on other hardware. This does not work on a VPS server and is totally dependent on the hardware of what is being sent.
• The virtualization technology of a Cloud Server allows resources such as processor or RAM memory to be freely assigned by a VPS that is subject to the resources of the physical server.
• Lowest Price VPS in the Cloud Server you know that the infrastructure is cheaper and requires less development time.
• The Cloud server is very cheap for the time of use since the VPS is a small cost per month.

cloud server for 1 year

Amazon EC2 is available to you free head in which includes 750 hours per month lasts for 12 months on t2.micro instances on Windows and Linux.

I would like to tell you that we only have one The VPS server works 24 hours a day. (24h * 31 days = 744h) We would not exhaust the number of free monthly hours. We cannot use 6 hours to use Podemos to start a new VPS server. That is, for practical purposes, we will have a totally free VPS.

We will be able to have multiple services in the Cloud and start and maintain them whenever we want, but without exceeding all the number of free hours if we do not want to connect them.

There are several ways to use Amazon EC2. You can use the management console, the SDK in the AWS Dashboard, or command line tools (CLI). You will tend to have full control over the instances in the same way that you have any machine.

Use Amazon’s free VPS in 7 minutes

The initial pass to enjoy the free limit of Amazon AWS, for example chancellor. We can do it here totally free.

I’ll give you the dice credit card. This is to have the response charge if we exceed the number of hours of the free plan or use other services without credit for the free usage capacity. No topic can be that we are only going to use free resources as well as they will not charge our account.

And then we’ll put it away check phone number. Amazon will give us a call where we must enter the digits that we need to enter on the screen. Once this is done, another screen would appear indicating that the verification was successful.

On the next screen we will choose the basic plan or “Basic plan (free)” and on the last screen we will click on “Finish registration”. With this we are registered in AWS and we have it available free head to be able to use it.

Now we will access the AWS Management Console half and half:

The Amazon Web Services console is a web application from which we can manage all Amazon services.

In the console search engine we write «EC2». You can also find it in the menu All services ⮞ Computing ⮞ EC2. We will enter EC2 to access the virtual server management panel.

The control panel is in English although if you don’t know English you don’t have to worry that with a click or two we will list our virtual server.

Click the button «launch instance».

And below we show you the different virtual machines that we have available. Since we will not have to pay, we will only filter those that are free marking the check « Free level only«.

For the example we will create a ubuntu server even you can choose any other. To do this, we mark the blue «Select» button of the chosen option and it will take us to a new screen in which we will show the resources (RAM, cores, etc.) that our server has in the cloud.

By default, we make one instance of type «t2.micro». This is the one included in the free card.

We are already finishing. And then we have two possibilities, configure the machine with the default values or customize the settings. For simplicity, we want to create the VPS server with default values; in another article we explain the advanced configuration.

Therefore, we must click on the button «See and Cast» and a summary appears with all the virtual server configuration that we have created. Finally, click on “Start”.

If it shows us a pop-up where we have to create a new SSH key to which we connect to the server. Select “Create a new key pair”, write a name for the file and save it (Download a key pair). If not, it will download a file with a «.pem» extension that we will have to save in a safe place.

After downloading the «.pem» file, we will click on «Launch Instance» and our machine will be created. This can last 1 or 2 minutes. Once the VPS terminal is installed, the list will open for you to access.

In the panel that shows the instances we can see the machine created and its IP, which will be used to access it. We must know that if we turn on the machine and turn it on, it will probably change the IP. If we do a restart (restart) it will not change.

Access to Amazon VPS

We could connect to the machine we created in a number of ways. One of them is through SSH using the great free knowledge program Whale and the «.pem» certificate that we previously downloaded. This option requires some additional steps to be required first to convert the «.pem» certificate to the «.ppk» format in order to use it in Putty.

Another, faster option is to use an SSH command that doesn’t appear in the Amazon control panel. For that, we right click on the instance and on “Connect”. let’s copy in the paper holder the example command.

now we will open it command terminal (CMD) from our computer and we go to the path where we save the saved «.pem» file. In our case it is the download carpet.

we just keep it run the ssh command che we have on the clipboard and we are already connected to the server.

If we are using Linux and get a Key-Pair permission error, we change the permissions for the .pem file with the i return command to indicate so.

chmod 400 ~/Downloads/miServidor.pem