Create Your First AWS EC2 Instance | Complete Beginner Guide | Free Tier 2026 | AWS EC2 Launch
🚀 Want to launch your first AWS EC2 instance and connect
to it using Putty — but don't know where to start?
In this video I'll walk you through everything step by step —
from creating your EC2 instance on AWS Free Tier,
setting up your key pair, configuring security groups
and successfully logging into your server using Putty!
This is the perfect starting point for beginners who are
just getting started with AWS cloud and want to get
their hands dirty with real infrastructure!
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🎯 WHO SHOULD WATCH THIS VIDEO
Whether you are a developer, DevOps engineer or student
just starting your cloud journey — this video is for you.
No prior AWS experience needed.
By the end of this video you will have a real running
EC2 instance on AWS and be connected to it live!
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📌 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS VIDEO
✅ What is AWS EC2 and why it is used
✅ How to create an AWS Free Tier account
✅ How to launch an EC2 instance from AWS console step by step
✅ What is a Key Pair and how to create one
✅ What is a Security Group and how to configure it correctly
✅ How to allow SSH access in your Security Group
✅ How to download and install Putty on Windows
✅ How to login to your EC2 instance using Putty
✅ Common mistakes beginners make when setting up EC2
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🔍 WHO IS THIS VIDEO FOR
This video is perfect for you if you are:
👉 A complete beginner who has never used AWS before
👉 A developer who wants to learn cloud infrastructure
👉 A student preparing for AWS certifications
👉 A DevOps engineer just starting their cloud journey
👉 Anyone who has tried to launch EC2 before but got stuck
at the Putty login step
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💡 WHAT IS AWS EC2
EC2 stands for Elastic Compute Cloud.
It is one of the most fundamental and widely used
services in all of AWS.
Simply put — EC2 gives you a virtual server in the cloud
that you can use for anything:
→ Hosting websites and applications
→ Running databases and backend services
→ Learning Linux and cloud concepts hands on
→ Building DevOps pipelines and automation
The best part for beginners —
AWS Free Tier gives you 750 hours per month
of EC2 t2.micro usage completely free for 12 months.
That means you can follow this entire video
without spending a single rupee.
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⚙️ WHAT IS COVERED STEP BY STEP IN THIS VIDEO
→ Opening AWS Console and navigating to EC2
→ Choosing the right AMI — Amazon Linux 2
→ Selecting t2.micro for Free Tier eligibility
→ Creating a Key Pair and downloading the .pem file
→ Configuring Security Group to allow SSH on port 22
→ Launching the EC2 instance and waiting for it to run
→ Finding the Public IP address of your instance
→ Downloading and installing Putty on Windows
→ Configuring Putty with your EC2 Public IP
→ Loading your key file in Putty Auth settings
→ Successfully logging into your EC2 server
→ Verifying you are inside your running Linux server
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⚠️ COMMON MISTAKES TO AVOID
→ Forgetting to allow port 22 in Security Group
This is the number one reason Putty connection fails
→ Using wrong username when logging in
For Amazon Linux it is ec2-user not root or ubuntu
→ Not saving your .pem key file safely
Once lost you cannot recover it — create a new key pair
→ Leaving your instance running after the tutorial
Stop it to avoid using up your Free Tier hours
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