Get setup to use EC2 (detailed in a prior post).
Find the AMI you want to run: List AMIs. Find ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml and note it’s AMI number from column 2:
ec2-describe-images -o self -o amazon
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IMAGE ami-2bb65342 ec2-public-images/getting-started.manifest.xml amazon available public i386 machine
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Create an ssh keypair that will be used to access it:
ec2-add-keypair gsg-keypair
Save key to id_rsa-gsg-keypair
Create an instance of that type that will be accessed using that [...]