Amazon Web Services makes a smooth process in setting up a fresh modern Linux distribution just using your web browser, . Before you can start you will need an account, so hopefully your best choice:
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How your organization gives access to Amazon Web Services will vary. This is how Lev our system administrator gave iNTERFACEWARE staff access to AWS through the Google Applications: |
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You can create your own account for free.
Or talk to your system admin department to get access.
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Just go to: And you can create a free Amazon Web Services account - you will need enter a credit card. Just be careful to only provision machines in the free tier. |
If you have access to an AWS Account:
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In 30 seconds I set up an AWS Linux instance which can be used for installing Iguana: |
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Amazon Linux is an excellent choice.
Defaults for most of the settings should be fine.
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For AWS to completely initialize the machine takes a little longer. I suggest you do something else - take a break, get a coffee or what ever brings you joy. Then in the next video you can see how one can easily connect to your instance: In this case I use the build in browser tool. It’s possible to connect in other ways like ssh but that is different topic |
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From just a few minutes and clicks you have a fresh working Linux machine to install IguanaX on.
Continue to download and install IguanaX.