You can prepare an AWS account and launch an instance. An instance is a virtual server in the AWS cloud. You launch an instance from an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or through conventional installation of an Amazon EC2 instance.
To install Amazon EC2 instance with the conventional installation method:
Log in to the AWS console with your AWS account.
On the
AWS services
page under
Compute
, select
EC2
.
In the
Create Instance
section, select
Launch Instance
.
You can then launch a virtual server known as Amazon EC2.