Amazon EC2 Quick Start

adapted from
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/
EC2_GetStarted.html
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the basic
building blocks of Amazon EC2
• An AMI is a template that contains a software
configuration (operating system, application
server and applications) that can run on
Amazon’s computing environment
• AMIs can be used to launch an instance,
which is a copy of the AMI running as a virtual
server in the cloud.
 Getting Started with Amazon EC2

• Step 1: Sign up for Amazon EC2

• Step 2: Create a key pair
• Step 3: Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
• Step 4: Connect to the instance
• Step 5: Customize the instance
• Step 6: Terminate instance and delete the
volume created
 Creating a key pair
• AWS uses public-key cryptography to encrypt
and decrypt login information.
• AWS only stores the public key, and the user
stores the private key.
• There are two options for creating a key pair:
– Have Amazon EC2 generate it for you
– Generate it yourself using a third-party tool such
as OpenSSH, then import the public key to
Amazon EC2
 Generating a key pair with Amazon EC2
1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at
http://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
2. On the navigation bar select region for the key pair
3. Click Key Pairs in the navigation pane to display
the list of key pairs associated with the account
Generating a key pair with EC2 (cont.)

4. Click Create Key Pair

5. Enter a name for the key pair in the Key Pair
Name field of the dialog box and click Create
6. The private key file, with .pem extension, will
automatically be downloaded by the
browser.
 Launching an Amazon EC2 instance
1. Sign in to AWS Management Console and
open the Amazon EC2 console at
http://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
2. From the navigation bar select the region for
the instance
Launching an Amazon EC2 instance (cont.)
3. From the Amazon EC2 console dashboard, click
Launch Instance
Launching an Amazon EC2 instance (cont.)
4. On the Create a New Instance page, click Quick
Launch Wizard
5. In Name Your Instance, enter a name for the
instance
6. In Choose a Key Pair, choose an existing key pair, or
create a new one
7. In Choose a Launch Configuration, a list of basic
machine configurations are displayed, from which
an instance can be launched
8. Click continue to view and customize the settings
for the instance
Launching an Amazon EC2 instance (cont.)
9. Select a security group for the instance. A
Security Group defines the firewall rules
specifying the incoming network traffic delivered
to the instance. Security groups can be defined
on the Amazon EC2 console, in Security Groups
under Network and Security
Launching an Amazon EC2 instance (cont.)
10.Review settings and click Launch to launch the
instance
11.Close the confirmation page to return to EC2
console
12.Click Instances in the navigation pane to view
the status of the instance. The status is pending
while the instance is launching

After the instance is launched, its status changes to

running
Connecting to an Amazon EC2 instance
• There are several ways to connect to an EC2
instance once it’s launched.

• Remote Desktop Connection is the standard

way to connect to Windows instances.

• An SSH client (standalone or web-based) is

used to connect to Linux instances.
 Connecting to Linux/UNIX Instances
from Linux/UNIX with SSH
Prerequisites:
- Most Linux/UNIX computers include an SSH client by
default, if not it can be downloaded from openssh.org
- Enable SSH traffic on the instance (using security
groups)
- Get the path the private key used when launching the
instance
1. In a command line shell, change directory to the path
of the private key file
2. Use the chmod command to make sure the private
key file isn’t publicly viewable
Connecting to Linux/UNIX Instances(cont.)
3. Right click on the instance to connect to on the
AWS console, and click Connect.
4. Click Connect using a standalone SSH client.
5. Enter the example command provided in the
Amazon EC2 console at the command line shell
 Transfering files to Linux/UNIX
instances from Linux/UNIX with SCP
Prerequisites:
- Enable SSH traffic on the instance
- Install an SCP client (included by default mostly)
- Get the ID of the Amazon EC2 instance, public DNS
of the instance, and the path to the private key
If the key file is My_Keypair.pem, the file to transfer is
samplefile.txt, and the instance’s DNS name is ec2-
184-72-204-112.compute-1.amazonaws.com, the
command below copies the file to the ec2-user home
 Terminating Instances
- If the instance launched is not in the free
usage tier, as soon as the instance starts to
boot, the user is billed for each hour the
instance keeps running.
- A terminated instance cannot be restarted.
- To terminate an instance:
1. Open the Amazon EC2 console
2. In the navigation pane, click Instances
3. Right-click the instance, then click Terminate
4. Click Yes, Terminate when prompted for
confirmation
Google App Engine Quick Start
adapted from
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoo
gleappengine
 Google App Engine (GAE)
• GAE lets users run web applications on Google’s
infrastructure
• GAE data storage options are:
– Datastore: a NoSQL schemaless object datastore
– Google Cloud SQL: Relational SQL database service
– Google Cloud Storage: Storage service for objects and files
• All applications on GAE can use up to 1 GB of storage
and enough CPU and bandwidth to support an efficient
application serving around 5 million page views a
month for free.
• Three runtime environments are supported: Java,
Python and Go.
 Developing Java Applications on GAE
• The easiest way to develop Java applications for
GAE is to use the Eclipse development
environment with the Google plugin for Eclipse.
• App Engine Java applications use the Java Servlet
standard for interacting with the web server
environment.
• An application’s files, including compiled classes,
JARs, static files and configuration files, are
arranged in a directory structure using the WAR
standard layout for Java web applications.
 Running a Java Project
• The App Engine SDK includes a web server
application to test applications. The server
simulates the complete GAE environment.
• The project can be run using the “Debug As >
Web Application” option of Eclipse or using
Ant.
• After running the server, the application can
be tested by visiting the server’s URL in a Web
browser.
 Uploading an Application to GAE
• Applications are created and managed using the
Administration Console at
https://appengine.google.com.
• Once an application ID is registered for an
application, the application can be uploaded to
GAE using the Eclipse plugin or a command-line
tool in the SDK.
• After uploading, the application can be accessed
from a Web browser. If a free appspot.com
account was used for registration, the URL for the
application will be http://app_id.appspot.com/,
where app_id the application id assigned during
registration.