1. Go to https://aws.amazon.com/
2. Click Create an AWS Account
3. If you have an amazon account login with your amazon credentials (If not, create an account)

• Follow the instructions to create your account.
• On the Contact Information page select Personal Account
• For Support plan, the free option has already been picked, just click continue

4. If the instructions have been followed, your AWS Account should be created.

1. Go to https://www.awseducate.com/Application?apptype=student
2. Fill out the form appropriately

• For institution type Davis and our school option will pop up, click on it
• USE YOUR @UCDAVIS.EDU EMAIL
• Your AWS Account ID can be found at https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/account
• DO NOT click the option for AWS Educate Starter Account

3. Complete the verification process
4. Your application should be approved within 1 minute and you will receive an approval email if you followed the steps correctly.

Your application approval email came with a promotional credit code

1. Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/credits
2. Enter your promo code and your credit should be applied

1. Go to https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1

• Make sure it says N.California in the top right corner

2. Click on the blue button in the middle of the screen saying "Launch Instance"

• It should say "Note: Your instances will launch in the US West (N. California) region"

3. Click on Community AMIs in the menu on the left
4. In the search bar search for BIS180L
5. Select BIS180L - ami-b18cd2d1
6. On next page click on the 4th option down

• It should say "t2.medium (Variable ECUs, 2 vCPUs, 2.5 GHz, Intel Xeon Family, 4 GiB memory, EBS only)" on the screen now

7. Click "6. Configure Security Group" at the top of the page
8. Make sure "create a new security group" is selected. Then change Type to All TCP
9. Click Review and launch at the bottom of the page
10. Click Launch
11. Select "Create a new key pair"

• Name it whatever you want
• Click the Download button
• Press "Launch Instances"

1. Go to https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1#Addresses:sort=publicIp
2. Click "Allocate New Address"
3. Click on "Actions" followed by "Associate Address"
4. On the pop-up window click on the instance box and the name of your instance will pop up, click on it followed by "Associate" at the bottom of the window

1. Go to https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1#Instances:sort=securityGroupNames

• Here you'll find your instance
• Take note of your Public IP (you'll need this later)

2. Click Connect (This will open a new window)

• Under Example: copy the line which starts with "ssh"

4. Open up your Terminal interface (ie. GitBash (Windows), Terminal(Mac))
5. Paste in the line you copied

• You will have to change where it says "root" and replace it with "ubuntu"

6. You should now be logged into your Instance

1. While logged into your Instance
2. Enter sudo passwd ubuntu

• Enter a new password you want to use
• This password will be used to log into Rstudio and to log into your instance if you lose you keypair file

1. Open whatever VNC viewer you wish to use. IE RealVNC
2. Your VNC server will be your Public IP you noted earlier except you'll add ":1: to the end of it

• Ex: 127.0.0.0:1

3. You will be asked to enter a password, the password is "Genomics"
4. You should now be able to see your desktop