Go to ‘https://aws.amazon.com‘ in a Web browser.
Select ‘My Account/Console’ menu option ‘AWS Management Console.”
Log in with your username & password.
Click on EC2 (upper left).
Many of the resources that we use are hosted by Amazon on the East coast. Make sure that your dashboard has ‘N. Virginia’ on the upper right.
Then click on Launch Instance.
Choose ‘Community AMIs’, enter ‘beacon’ into the search box, and click on ‘Select’.
Select ‘General purpose’, ‘m1.xlarge’, and then ‘Review and Launch’.
Enter ‘ami-7f340c16’ into the search box and click “search”. Select it, and hit Continue.
If you don’t have any key pairs, enter a key pair name and then download a key pair. Then click Launch Instance.