Amazon EC2

on the CS50 Wiki

Contents 1 Contact Information 2 Requirements 3 Outline 3.1 Overview 3.2 The GUI 3.3 The Command Line 4 Resources 5 Software 5.1 Linux 5.2 Mac OS 5.3 Windows

Contact Information

David J. Malan
Lecturer on Computer Science
http://www.cs.harvard.edu/malan/
dmalan@harvard.edu

Requirements

• Wireless laptop (with power supply)
• Credit card (you won't be billed anything, but you'll need it to register with Amazon)

Outline

Overview

Flash MP3 QuickTime

• Overview of Amazon EC2
• How We've Used It
• What It Costs
• Q&A

The GUI

• Signing up for AWS, EC2, and S3 (help)
• Using the Console (help)
  • Connecting to Linux/UNIX Instances (help)
  • Connecting to Windows Instances (help)
  • Terminating Instances (help)
  • Attaching Volumes

The Command Line

• Prerequisites for the API Tools (help)
• Setting Up the API Tools (help)
• Finding a Suitable (Linux) AMI (help)
• Running an Instance (help)
• Choose Your Own Adventure
  • Stress-Testing a Server (help)
  • Creating an AMI (help)
  • Load Balancing across Instances (help)
  • Tunneling Between Instances (help)

Resources

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • Developer Guide
  • Getting Started Guide
  • List of Command Line Operations by Function
  • Service Level Agreement
  • User Guide
• Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Processes
• AWS Credits
• AWS in Education
• AWS Simple Monthly Calculator
• Slides

Software

Linux

• Amazon EC2 API Tools
• Elastic Load Balancing API Tools
• J2SE 5 (if already installed) or Java SE 6
• rdesktop

Mac OS

• Amazon EC2 API Tools
• Elastic Load Balancing API Tools
• J2SE 5 (for Mac OS 10.4) or Java SE 6 (for Mac OS 10.5)
• Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2

Windows

• Amazon EC2 API Tools
• Elastic Load Balancing API Tools
• J2SE 5 (if already installed) or Java SE 6
• PuTTY and PuTTYgen (or cygwin)
• WinSCP (or another SFTP client)