To Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance

When you launch your Amazon EC2 instance, you secure it by specifying a key pair and security group. When you connect to your instance, you must specify the private key of the key pair that you specified when launching your instance.

To Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon EC2 console.
2. In the top right corner of the Amazon EC2 console, select the region for your EC2 instance.
   Note: You must select the same region for your EC2 and RDS instances and for the key pair you use to sign in to your instances.
3. From the console dashboard, click Launch Instance.
4. On the Select an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) page, select the Windows Server 2019 Base 64-bit AMI.
5. On the Select an Instance Type page, select the m5.large or m5a.large hardware configuration for your instance.
   Tip: We recommend using a virtual machine with at least two cores and eight gigabytes of RAM.
6. On the Security Groups page, select the security group that you've prepared to launch MYOB Acumatica.
7. On the Review Instance Launch page, review the settings for your instance, and then click Launch.
8. In the Select an existing key pair or create a new key pair dialog box, select Choose an existing key pair, and then select the prepared key pair.
9. When you are ready, select the acknowledgment check box, and then click Launch Instances.

   A confirmation page lets you know that your instance is launching.

10. Click View Instances to close the confirmation page and return to the console.
11. On the Instances page, view the status of your instance. It takes a short time for an instance to launch. When you launch an instance, its initial state is pending. After the instance starts, its state changes to running, and it receives a public DNS name.
12. On the Instances screen, select the instance and click Connect.
13. In the Connect to Your Instance dialog box:
    1. Select the prepared key.
    2. Download the Remote Desktop file.
14. Run the Remote Desktop file you've downloaded in Step 13 to access the web server you have launched.
15. For the operating system of the virtual machine, turn on the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and make sure the required IIS features are turned on, as described in System Requirements for MYOB Acumatica 2024.1.