Understanding Cloud Characteristics - Deploying and Managing a Cloud Infrastructure - page 5

EXERCISE 1.1: JIT PROVISIONING ON AWS
As a real-world example, let's walk through the process of provisioning a Linux server on
Amazon Web Services (AWS), shown in the following screen shot. This assumes that you
already have signed up for an AWS account and logged into the dashboard:
1. Once you have logged into the AWS dashboard, select EC2 and then
Launch Instance.
It's a seven-step process to configure and launch a single or multiple instances,
although if you have your template prepared already, it's as simple as a one-step
click and launch operation.
Back to launching our new instance from scratch.