Create Public instance

1. Go to EC2 service management console

• Click Instances.
• Click Launch instances.

2. On the Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page.

• Click Select to select AMI Amazon Linux 2 AMI.

3. On the Step 2: Choose an Instance Type page.

• Click on Instance type t2.micro.
• Click Next: Configure Instance Details.

4. At Step 3: Configure Instance Details page

• In the Network section, select Lab VPC.
• In the Subnet section, select Lab Public Subnet.
• In the Auto-assign Public IP section, select Use subnet setting (Enable)
• Click Next: Add Storage.

5. Click Next: Add Tags to move to the next step.

• Click Next: Configure Security Group to move to the next step.

6. On page Step 6: Configure Security Group.

• Select Select an existing security group.
• Select security group SG Public Linux Instance.
• Click Review and Launch.

7. The warning dialog box appears because we do not configure the firewall to allow connections to port 22, Click Continue to continue.

8. At page Step 7: Review Instance Launch.

• Click Launch.

9. In the Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair dialog box.

• Click to select Create a new key pair.
• In the Key pair name field, enter LabKeypair.
• Click Download Key Pair and save it to your computer.
• Click Launch Instances to create EC2 server.

10. Click View Instances to return to the list of EC2 instances.

11. Click the edit icon under the Name column.

• In the Edit Name dialog box, enter Public Linux Instance.
• Click Save.

Next, we will do the same to create an EC2 Instance Windows running in the Private subnet.