Neill Turner's slides from the AWS User Group workshop 24th June 2009. More at www.ec2dream.com

1. AWS Getting Started
Neill Turner
www.ec2dream.com

2. Getting Started Options
http://www.ec2dream.com/search/label/Getting%20Started
• EC2Dream System Admin.
• AWS Management Console Tutorial.
• ElasticFox.
• Amazon Getting Started Guide.

3. AWS Management Console
Tutorial at http://ec2dream.webs.com/AWS-
Management-Console.pdf
• Introduction - Setting Up.
• #1: Running an Instance.
• #2: Bundling an Instance.
• #3: Creating an Elastic Block Store(EBS)
Volume.
• #4: Associate an Elastic IP address with
an instance.
• Appendix #1: PuTTY.

4. Introduction – Setting Up
• AWS Account http://
aws.amazon.com
• EC2 Account http://
aws.amazon.com/ec2
• S3 Account http://
aws.amazon.com/s3
• Logon to AWS Management Console
https://console.aws.amazon.com and
create a keypair, saving generated file
in secure place.

5. #1: Running an Instance
• Step 1: Setting up a Security
Group.
• Step 2: Choosing an AMI.
(I recommend the RightScale small
instance AMI ami-cb52b6a2).
• Step 3: Launching an Instance.

6. EC2Dream System Admin
Installation - Assumed you have a windows PC. If linux use ssh to access your instance.
1. Download from www.ec2dream.com
2. Unzip this zip to a folder say C:EC2Dream (No spaces in directory!) and follow
reame.txt file
3. Go to Ruby folder and run the Ruby installer ruby186-27_rc2.exe.
4. Also on the Ruby folder run to add Ruby components (i.e. gems).
gem_install_right_aws.bat
gem_install_capistrano.bat
1. Correct known problem with capistrano.
Change C:/Program Files/ruby/bin/cap (or whatever location Ruby was installed in)
line that reads: require_gem 'capistrano', version
to gem 'capistrano', version
1. Edit the run.bat file and set the EC2DREAM_HOME to the folder of the EC2Dream
install (i.e. C:EC2DREAM)
2. Start a command window and cd to EC2DREAM_HOME and execute run.bat to start
EC2DREAM GUI tool.

7. EC2Dream System Admin
Tutorial at
http://www.ec2dream.webs.com/gettingstarted/
1. Follow Creating an Environment
Creating an Environment
Creating a KeyPair (add to settings)
1. Then you should see your server
and be able to access it by clicking
on server in the tree and then click
on the terminal icon.