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Setting up PuTTY for AWS access
By: System Admin 08/30/2012
PuTTY is a free open source SSH client. You will need to install it (basically download the installer and run it) if you have not already done so. Make sure you have both PuTTY and PuTTYgen programs. Configuration for AWS Instance access These instructions assume you have already setup an AWS instance. If you haven't setup an AWS Instance, you can find help at Setting up a Free Tier Amazon EC2Â Instance.
Open your AWS Console (go to http://aws.amazon.com and login) Go to "EC2" under "Compute and Networking"
...Amazon Cloud Hosting
By: System Admin 08/27/2012
Amazon is a huge player in the cloud hosting space. Cloud hosting is basically where a company fills a server farm with racks upon racks of physical computers, hard drives and routers. The company then uses software to combine the individual computers into a super computer which is then partitioned off into a series of virtual servers of varying sizes and types. The company then resells usage of these virtual servers to their clients. Amazon Web Services (the division which provides the service) offers a variety of different types of virtual servers, but the basic, and most flexible, is called Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Amazon EC2 Instances
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