- Go to https://aws.amazon.com/
- Click Create an AWS Account
- 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
- If the instructions have been followed, your AWS Account should be created.
- Go to https://www.awseducate.com/Application?apptype=student
- 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
- Complete the verification process
- 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
- Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home?#/credits
- Enter your promo code and your credit should be applied
- Make sure it says N.California in the top right corner
- Click on the blue button in the middle of the screen saying "Launch Instance"
- Click on Community AMIs in the menu on the left
- In the search bar search for BIS180L
- Select BIS180L - ami-b18cd2d1
- 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
- Click "6. Configure Security Group" at the top of the page
- Make sure "create a new security group" is selected. Then change Type to All TCP
- Click Review and launch at the bottom of the page
- Click Launch
- Select "Create a new key pair"
- Name it whatever you want
- Click the Download button
- Press "Launch Instances"
- Go to https://us-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-west-1#Addresses:sort=publicIp
- Click "Allocate New Address"
- Click on "Actions" followed by "Associate Address"
- 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
- 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)
- Under Example: copy the line which starts with "ssh"
- You will have to change where it says "root" and replace it with "ubuntu"
- You should now be logged into your Instance
- While logged into your Instance
- 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
- Open whatever VNC viewer you wish to use. IE RealVNC
- 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