Using Amazon Web Services

Logged into aws.amazon.com with my Amazon account, which I then used to create an AWS account.

Created an EC2 instance. I choose Ubuntu 14.04.

During the process, I had to create a key pair name. AWS created a private key, which I downloaded. It was a .pem file.

I moved the .pem file to another directory on my local Linux machine at home. From within this directory, I used ssh to connect to my EC2 account, using the command line instructions provided by AWS's web interface.

It's a fairly clean or empty Linux machine, as with my Digital Ocean Droplet account.

I chose to install Nginx first.

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install nginx