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Windows Virtual Machine (EC2) in cloud

  1. Go to AWS Console
  2. Type EC2 and click the EC2 menu
  3. Click Instances at the left menu
  4. Click Launch instances
  5. in Choose an Amazon Machine Image, Find Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base and click Select
  6. in Choose an Instance Type, click t2.micro and click Next: Configure Instance Details

There will be configure instance details page. Right here, we can setup the network, subnet, roles, etc.

  1. in Configure instance details, click Next: add storage

In storage, it is going to use Elastic Block Store to create block storage for EC2 instance.

  1. in Add Storage, click Next: add tags

Tags are useful to group the EC2 instance into one. We can group it based on the project that it involves. Example, There will be 5 EC2 running and 2 of them is for Project A. Therefore, we can give tags to 2 EC2 instances and group them into one. We will put the key as Project and Value as A for this case. Right now, we can skip this step for the sake of simplicity.

  1. in tags, click Next: Configure Security Group

Security group is an instance-based Firewall. It allows which traffic that is going to be accessible to the instance.

  1. in Security group name, change it to EC2SG
  2. change the Description to EC2 Firewall
  3. Click Review and Launch
  4. click Launch

There will be a pop-up menu asking about key pair. Key pair is necessary for accessing the instance. Without it, you are not allowed to access your Instance.

  1. Click Create a new key pair
  2. in key pair name, type WindowsKeyPair
  3. click Download Key Pair

It will download a Key Pair File into your device.

  1. click Launch Instances.

it will display the notification stated that Your instances are now launching

  1. click View Instances at the bottom page

you will see that the instance is currently running, but still initializing the status check. For every newly created instance, it needs to pass the status check. it may take few minutes to complete it. You may click refresh button to check if the instance has been passed the status check.

Once the status has been completed, it will show 2/2 checks passed.

Now, we can try to connect to our instance.

  1. click the checkbox at the left side of your instance.
  2. click Connect

it will show the connect to instance page. Now, go to RDP Client page.

  1. Click Download remote desktop file

It will download the remote desktop file to access the instance.

  1. click Get password at password area.

it will ask you WindowsKeyPair that has been downloaded at your device.

  1. click Browse and find your WindowsKeyPair file.
  2. click Decrypt Password

it will display the password for you to access your instance.

  1. copy Public DNS, User name, and the password. you are going to use it for accessing the instance.
  2. Open remote desktop file we have downloaded from step 21.
  3. in PC Name, input your Public DNS.
  4. for user name, input the user name we have copied.
  5. for password, input the password we got from previous step.

It will be successfully connected to your Windows server.

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