# Managing resource utilization and server monitoring in AWS ## **Prerequisites** 1. You should know the concepts and commands of Linux. 2. Basic understanding of Virtual machines, ports, volumes and authentication in cloud. ## **AWS EC2 Instance** EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud is a virtual server that runs on the cloud which can be opened by anyone over the internet provided the user have proper authentication to access. ***Let's spin up an AWS EC2 instance.*** 1. Login to AWS console and navigate to EC2.

2. Click on Launch instance to create a new EC2 instance.

3. Provide the Instance name.

4. Choose the OS image that you need to have in your server. In this project I am going to use Ubuntu.

5. Choose the instance shape and size required according to the project specification.

6. Proper authentication to the server is mandatory. Therefore we need to create a private key for the server.

7. Choose the appropriate setting of security group according to the project requirement. In this project we are going to use normal workflow.

8. Choose the appropriate size of the volume needed in the server. Here we have a standard default requirement. Finally click on **Launch instance**.

9. Now the instance is running.

10. You can access the instance through AWS EC2 Connect which is the most common way.

Now, Let's step forward to build our project.