How to create an EC2 in AWS in Ubuntu Image and install nginx.

EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud )is a part of Amazon's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services, that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications.Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.An Amazon EC2 Instance is a virtual server within Amazon's EC2, a service in the AWS.

In this article we are going to write the steps in creating EC2 in AWS in ubuntu image and installing it.

Step 1
Go to AWS.com/free and open a free account and login

Step 2
Go to the 'Search field ' and type EC2 and click on the dashboard.

Step 3
Click on 'Launch instance' button

Step 4
Write your name/fill in the Tag filed.

Step 5
Choose your image, because we are writing article on ubuntu,so we chose the ubuntu image.

Step 6
Choose your instance type.

Step 7
Create key pair.

Step 8
Go to 'Network settings' and choose your traffic , because its ubuntu image we are going to choose SSH and HTTP.

Step 9
Click on 'Launch instance' to create the EC2, after which We will have a successful initiated launch of the EC2.