#How to get up and running on AWS
- Go to aws.amazon.com and after logging in with your Amazon account (or creating a new Amazon account) click on the link for EC2.
- Click the button that says Launch Instance
- AWS will walk you through a step by step process of setting up your EC2 instance. Step 1 of choosing an EC2 instance is choosing a machine instance. There are many server options with different OS types but I primarily use a 64-bit ubuntu server with the most recent release.
- The next step is choosing an instance type. Generally I have found the bigger the instance the better and paying a few dollars is generally better than using the free tier. I have never