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Start an Amazon Web Services computer:
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This page shows you how to create a new "AWS instance", or a running
computer.

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Start at the Amazon Web Services console (http://aws.amazon.com/ and
sign in to the console).

0. Select "EC2 - virtual servers in the cloud"
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1. Switch to zone US West (N California)
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2. Click on "Launch instance."
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3. Select "Community AMIs."
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4. Search for ami-05384865 (ubuntu-wily-15.10-amd64-server)
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Use ami-05384865.

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5. Click on "Select."
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6. Choose m4.xlarge.
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7. Click "Review and Launch."
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8. Click "Launch."
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9. Select "Create a new key pair."
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Note: you only need to do this the first time you create an instance.
If you know where your amazon-key.pem file is, you can select 'Use an
existing key pair' here.  But you can always create a new key pair if
you want, too.

If you have an existing key pair, go to step 12, "Launch instance."

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10. Enter name 'amazon-key'.
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11. Click "Download key pair."
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12. Click "Launch instance."
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13. Select View instances (lower right)
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14. Bask in the glory of your running instance
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Note that for your instance name you can use either "Public IP" or
"Public DNS". Here, the machine only has a public IP.

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You can now :doc:`login-shell` or :doc:`configure-firewall`.