Create an EC2 instance and configure a snapshot and demo the use of it

Steps Involved in creation of EC2 instance are :

• Open the amazon EC2 console and in navigation pane choose key pair, you use a key pair to log in to your instance securely. You specify the name of the key pair when you launch your instance.
• For Name, enter a descriptive name for the key pair.
• For Key pair type,To save the private key in a format that can be used with OpenSSH, choose pem.
• To save the private key in a format that can be used with PUTTY, choose PPK. Choose Create key pair. The private key file is automatically downloaded by your browser.
• Next choose security group and description and create inbound and outbound rules for the instance
• From the EC2 console dashboard, in the Launch instance box, choose Launch instance, and then choose Launch instance from the options that appear.
• Under Key pair (login), for Key pair name, choose the key pair that you created when getting set up.
• Next to Network settings, choose Edit. For Security group name, you’ll see that the wizard created and selected a security group for you. You can use this security group, or alternatively you can select the security group that you created when getting set up using the following steps. Choose Select existing security group.
• And that’s it an ec2 instance will be created.