Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2 has changed quite a bit in the last five years, so whether you are new to EC2 or an old hand, it’s worth a look at how to launch your own EC2 instances ...

Here is how. Step 1: Sign Up for and Log Into AWS First things first: You will need an Amazon Web Services account. Once you have signed up, sign in as a Root user (unrestricted access). This will ...

My article “ Linux Amazon EC2 tutorial: How to set up an EC2 instance ” shows you how to set up Amazon Web Services’ compute service if you use Linux (specifically, Ubuntu Linux).