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Configuring an EC2 Linux instance lab

Configuring an EC2 Linux instance lab

- Okay, now we've got a Linux instance in the AWS Cloud. We accomplished that in the last episode. Now what we need to do is figure out how we connect to an instance like that. How do you actually use it? Amazon is telling us it's there, but mystically, where is it and how do I get to it? Well, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that now because it can be a little bit confusing if you're doing it for the first time and we'll see exactly what we need to get the connection and then once we're connected to how we work, in this case, with a Linux instance. So let's take a look at what we have. Now first of all, you'll notice that back at the EC2 dashboard, we do now show we have one running instance, one volume and one key pair. So we didn't have those before we launched the instance. The volume is going to be the EBS volume that's associated with the one instance. The key pair, you'll remember we downloaded…

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