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Create an AWS EC2 instance

Create an AWS EC2 instance

(upbeat music) - Welcome to this video where I'll show you how to create an instance of Windows Server 2016 in Amazon Web Services EC2 service. Once you've logged into the console, if you select EC2, and you'll get to the EC2 dashboard. so if we click on Launch Instance. From here we're going to select the Free tier images only. From which you have quite a selection, so we'll select the Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Base image. Again, you're now presented with the size of the instances that you can select. We're going to select the free tier, which has one vCPU and one gig of RAM. Obviously there is other ones available. When it comes to Configure Instance it actually asks us how many, how number of instances. We'll only select one, you can select up to 20 instances. The network, we'll just stick with the default, virtual private cloud. And our Subnets, we have set to No preference at the moment. Auto-assign a Public IP, we're going to disable that just now as we're going to assign an…

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