Set up Linux Server on AWS in minutes

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 either:

FIRST!! See if you have access to your organization's AWS Account (you will need a credit card)

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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OR if you don't have one then create your own free AWS Account

Just go to:

https://aws.amazon.com/

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.

Then:

You can create an Linux machine

In 30 seconds I set up an AWS Linux instance which can be used for installing Iguana:

Amazon Linux is an excellent choice.
Defaults for most of the settings are fine.

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Wait a few minutes. Then connect to your Linux machine!

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:

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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.

From just a few minutes and clicks you have a fresh working Linux machine to install IguanaX on.

Continue to download IguanaX.