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πŸš€ Launching a Virtual Machine on Utho Cloud β€” Step-by-Step Guide

🌍 Step 1:

Select Data Center Location & Operating System
Begin by choosing the Data Center location that best suits your geographical or latency requirements. Then, select the desired Operating System (Linux, Windows, etc.).

DC and Operating system

πŸ’° Step 2:

Choose Billing Cycle & Instance Family
Select your preferred billing cycle (monthly or yearly) and pick an appropriate instance family based on your workload needs.

Instance family

πŸ” Step 3:

Configure Authentication
Next, configure how you'd like to access the VM:

πŸ”‘ Use SSH Keys (recommended for Linux)

πŸ”’ Or enable Password Authentication (typically for Windows or simple use cases)

βœ… Ensure "Public IP" is enabled if you want to access the machine from the internet.

Authentication

*πŸ›‘οΈ Step 4: *

Select Network Configuration
Choose the following:

πŸ•ΈοΈ VPC

🌐 Subnet

πŸ” Security Group (define allowed ports, protocols)

Once everything is set, hit Deploy to launch your VM!

Deploy

You're all set! Your VM will be up and running in just a few moments. Stay tuned for more tutorials on post-deployment configuration, monitoring, and scaling.

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