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Create a Lightsail instance

Create a Lightsail instance

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Create a Lightsail instance

- [Instructor] The technique that you'll use to deploy a Lightsail instance is quite a bit different from that of deploying an EC2 instance. Even so, you'll find that setting up a Lightsail instance is really simple so let's go ahead and do one. So right now I'm logged in to the AWS Console and you can see that I've got a list of the services on screen so I'm going to come over to the compute section and you can see that the second item on the list is Lightsail. I'll go ahead and click on Lightsail and this is going to take me into the Lightsail dashboard. And you can see that right now, I don't have any instances set up, but I've got a great big orange button that I can click on to create an instance so let's go ahead and do that. I'll click create instance and this takes me to the create an instance screen. So the first thing that I have to do is choose where I want my instance to reside. And you can see that by default, my instance is going to be in Virginia Zone A and that's…

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