Creating an EC2 Web Instance

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To create an EC2 Web Instance on AWS, follow these steps:
****Step 1

On the EC2 Dashboard, click Launch Instance.

****Step 2
change your region to London

Step 3: Choose a name

Step 4: Select Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image)

Step 5: Choose Instance Type

Select the instance type based on your requirements (e.g., t3.micro for a low-cost, small instance).I am working now with t3.micro, and also switch to all generation as displayed above

Step 6: Configure your Instance Key pair (login) download and safe it to your file

Step 7: Network settings Configurations:
Tick the boxes, leave every other prompt to default settings and proceed to launch as displayed

Wait while the program launch

Step 8: program has been launch, now select this box in the image

Step 9: on the next page, you will now select your instance name you created and click on the connect bar

Step 10: Connect to instance and select RDP CLIENT

Step 11:on the RDP CLIENT Page select the get password bar

Now we will have to upload the keypair we download and saved earlier from the computer file as shown below

Step 12: After the keypair has been uploaded as seen in the image, we will need to Decrypt password to a passkey

Step 13: We will need to copy the password and proceed to the Download Remote Desktop file bar

Step 14: Launch and Open the Remote Desktop file

Step 15: On the launched Desktop file , now paste the password already copied from the previous page

Step 16:Now we have a new open windows. below the window on the search bar, we will input PowerShell then Run as Administrator so as to install windows features

Step 17: On the Administrator page, we need to input the command as shown in the box below, that will populate the features on the windows

Wait till it load, it might take a while

Our upload is a Success

Now we go back to our EC2 instance Page, then copy the public ip and paste it on web browser to open it

Lastly Verify the Web Server, if everything is fine we should get the image below

Conclusion
Your EC2 web instance is now ready to host a website. You can configure additional services, install applications, or upload your website files based on your needs.