Hadoop Tutorial 4: Start an EC2 Instance

Creating an EC2 Instance refers to the action of starting a server on Amazon using one's credential, and then connecting to it using ssh.

Steps

The steps are fairly simple:

• Connect to the AWS console, and then select Amazon EC2
• Click on Launch Instance
• When the instance is created, right click on it and click on Connect

• Copy/Paste the ssh command into a shell that you will have started

 ssh -i dft.pem root@ec2-174-129-165-180.compute-1.amazonaws.com

• Make sure you have downloaded a private key file to your .ssh directory first. This is done by
  • Selecting your account
  • clicking on Credentials
  • selecting the X.509 certificate tab
  • and clicking on Create New. A page will open allowing you to download your pem file.