Launching the instance

Now that we have learned about the instance types, let's continue launching our instance:

In the second step for launching our instance, we need to select the instance type and size.

To stay on the free tier, let's select a t2.micro. This is a general purpose instance that will provide one virtual CPU and, 1 GB of memory, and will not have any instance storage.

Click on Next: Configure Instance Details to go to the next step:

On this page, we're pretty much going to leave everything as the default settings.

However, ...

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