This will help you setup an instance on AWS (Just ingore, click OK on pop-ups pertaining to budget).
- Log into Amazon Academy using the email you were sent and click "Student login":
- Click "Modules" (drawn around by hand):
- Click "Learner Lab"
- Click "Start Lab"
- Click the (now green not red) AWS link (drawn around by hand):
- Click View all services (drawn around by hand):
- Click EC2 (drawn around by hand):
- Click Launch instance (drawn around by hand):
- Give it a suitable name and Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM):
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You now need to select an instance type. If you are working on labsheets or just testing your coursework, use a t2.micro instance. If you are benchmarking your distributed system use the largest available - medium instances (2 vCPU) seem to launch OK (and rumour around the lab is that M5 Large instances work too!). Once you have chosen the instance select "next".
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Most settings on this page do not need to be changed, the only one you should worry about is creating a key pair
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Click Create a new key pair (drawn around by hand):
- Call it something sensible and click create a key pair (note the EC2 instance will have this setup and the browser should automatically download the client side key)
- Note the downloaded key here:
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Leave the security group settings and storage as default
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Now click "launch instance". This will start your instance.
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Follow the next guide to get access to your instance.
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Once you have access you will need to install Go by following option 1 in this guide.