Create and Configure VM instance in AWS LightSail

I guess there should be nothing need to be mentioned for account creation. We move on to VM Instance creation

1. Menu to LightSail, different from EC2, we don't need to change location before setup

2. LightSail Creation is quite simple, as I is a bundle setup that selling services. That's why it will be much easier compare to EC2

All of my AWS setting are in Singapore with Debian 10, you can choose others if you want

3. This step is optional, you can use it if you want to setup in Putty.

You can either choose create new key or download default key, the key will be downloaded automatically after creation.

Change the name of the instance, or you can leave it as default name

4. Then we can start editing network of the server

Set the firewall rule of the server, config them as below

5. Set Static IP for the server (although we will use DDNS, but it can reduce troubleshoot time if we create one), name the static IP different from your server

6. For those who have done Step 3 for using Putty only Load the pem file you get from Step 3 (It should be xwrt.pem here, and it should not had changed yet. But I was too lazy, that why I used old screen caps)

Change the putty gen saving key setting, as some application (e.g. WinSCP) does not recognize PPK version 3.

Save the private key, it will be used in putty

7A. For those who have done Step 6,

7A. SSH to the VM using Putty (for those who performed Step 67) Host Name: the external IP, can be found in LightSail Home page

Then head for SSH, Auth to locate the ppk file you saved in Step 6. You can click open to start connection immediately, o you can go back to Session, type a name in "Saved Sessions" and press save for future use.

The login name here is admin

8B. You can also open SSH session in web browser