How to create an EC2 instance in AWS

Today, We will talk about how to create an EC2 instance on AWS Cloud platform in 2025. An EC2 instance (Elastic Compute Cloud instance) is a virtual server in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides scalable computing power. It allows users to run applications on cloud-based virtual machines.

Now we have to login our account and if don’t know how to create your AWS account for free then click on the link.

If you already have an AWS account then click on the link to login.

The screenshot above is from the login page of AWS console. You will get the Console Home page of the AWS cloud.

Now we will search for EC2 in the search bar of console home.

After clicking on EC2, It will open EC2 dashboard where we can read more about EC2 instances and its services.

We will click on “Launch instance” to select the configuration of our virtual server.

We have to configure our EC2 instance on the given dashboard by selecting our preferences. We are also getting the option to take a walkthrough of the dashboard to understand it better.

Let’s start with the configuration now, First we will give the name to our Ec2 instance.

I will give “My First Instance” to my EC2 instance.

Now we will select the OS for our Instance from “Application and OS Images“. We will select Ubuntu for our instance OS.

We can also check for free tier eligible OS as it is written in front of every free tier eligible OS.

Next we have to select “Instance Type” where we can select our desired hardware requirements like vCPU, Memory etc.

We will go with Free tier eligible “t2.micro” in instance type.

Next we have to create a key pair to connect to our instance after creation. We will click on the “Create new key pair“.

We will get a new menu for creating a key. We will provide the name for the key of your choice and select “.ppk” file type for easy login through putty.

We will click on “Create key pair” for downloading the key pair for our instance. We have to keep our keys on a safe place.

Now we will go for Network settings that includes Network, Subnet, Auto-assign public IP, Firewall (security groups) etc. We will go for default option for everything as we will make another post for fully customizations on instances.

We are just testing the instance so we won’t increase the storage from 8 GiB and go with the default option in “Configure storage”. For Advance details, We will not configure anything and go with the default settings.

Now we will click on “Launch instance” from bottom left side to start our instance. Our instance will be ready in less than 2 minutes in most of the cases.

We can check our instance by clicking on Instances. We can access our instance with the help of putty by copying our public IP for accessing the server. We will not access the server in this post.

That’s all for How to create an EC2 instance in AWS.

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