How to Create KeyPair for EC2 on Amazon Web Service(AWS).

A key pair, consisting of a private key and a public key, is a set of security credentials that you use to prove your identity when connecting to an instance. Amazon EC2 stores the public key, and you store the private key. You use the private key, instead of a password, to securely access your …

How to Create Placement Groups on Amazon Web Service(AWS).

  Placement Groups are logical groupings or clusters of instances in the selected AWS region. Placement groups are specifically used for launching cluster compute instance types. ( e.g. cc2.8xlarge) Cluster Compute Instances provide a large amount of CPU.   Login to aws portal. Click on Services.     Under Compute select EC2.     Click …

How to Create Elastic IPs on Amazon Web Service(AWS).

An Elastic IP address is a reserved public IP address that you can assign to any EC2 instance in a particular region, until you choose to release it. The Elastic IP address remains in place through events that normally cause the address to change, such as stopping or restarting the instance.By using an Elastic IP …

How to Create Volume on Amazon Web Service(AWS).

An Amazon EBS volume is a durable, block-level storage device that you can attach to your instances. EBS volumes persist independently from the running life of an EC2 instance. You can attach multiple EBS volumes to a single instance. The volume and instance must be in the same Availability Zone. EBS currently supports a maximum …

How to Create Snapshot on Amazon Web Service(AWS).

Snapshots are incremental backups, which means that only the blocks on the device that have changed after your most recent snapshot are saved. This minimizes the time required to create the snapshot and saves on storage costs by not duplicating data. Each snapshot contains all of the information that is needed to restore your data …