Free personal virtual machine - AWS free EC2 package

Cloud age , Everyone should have their own virtual machine . Now Amazon has launched a free one-year package , This is really good news for individual users , Let's learn today , How to collect this wool .

register

Account information

open AWS Official website , Then click Register in the upper right corner , Come to the registration page ：

Personal information

Fill in the registration information , Then continue to ：

Payment information

Further improve personal information , Then go on .

Be careful , Here you need an international credit card （VISA or Master, If you haven't , You can send me your phone address privately , I recommend you to apply for a card ）.

SMS 、 Telephone verification

If you can't receive text messages for a long time , You can choose Phone verification , fast .

Options

We are free users , Of course, we have to choose the basic scheme .

Create services

We have completed the above steps AWS Registration of , Next, we will create our virtual machine service .

Service selection

Log in with the account you just registered AWS, Get into AWS Management console selection EC2（ You can also select services by clicking on the services in the upper left corner ）.AWS Provides many services , Here we choose EC2（Elastic Compute Cloud）：

Boot instance

Mirror selection

Click Start instance , Go to the image list ：

Here you can choose the corresponding system image according to your own situation （ This article takes Ubuntu For example ）.

Type selection

After selecting the corresponding system image , You will enter the instance type selection page ：

The system will select by default t2.micro type , Now you can directly click the blue button in the lower right corner —— Review and start . If you want to make detailed settings , Just click next .

verification

Verification is to check the configuration of the previous host , It's like ordering food in a restaurant , The waiter will check the menu with you .

Boot instance

Next, it's time to start the instance we created , You need to download a key before starting . Take a name , Then download to local , You need to use it later when logging in remotely .

The first time you create an instance , The following conditions may occur during startup ：

In this case , Don't panic , Just wait , After a while, you will receive a verified email , Next, click Retry OK 了 .

See the following page , Congratulations on the successful start of your instance .

Remote login

Click the combination of numbers and letters in the above figure （ Example of ID）, Enter the instance list page .

Connect

Select your instance , And then click Connect , Or right click your instance and select Connect , The following prompt page pops up ：

Turn on your terminal （Terminal perhaps iTerm2）, Switch to key （ The one I just downloaded pem file ） In the directory , According to the command given on the prompt page , You can log in to the virtual machine we created .

If you think it's troublesome to switch to the key directory every time , Then add the key to this secret keystore ：

ssh-add -k xxx.pem

In this way, the command to log in to the virtual machine can be executed in any directory . If so, you still feel troublesome , Then you can refer to 《Mac（OSX） Next comparable XShell The artifact of Termius》 The method in , Configure the key content and connection command to Termius in .

Set up personal network agent

Software installation

#  obtain root jurisdiction 
sudo -s
#  to update apt-get
apt-get update
#  install  python  Package management tools  pip
apt-get install python-pip
#  install shadowsocks
pip install shadowsocks

If you encounter the following error

locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

Please execute the following order ：

export LC_ALL=C

To configure

Create configuration folder

mkdir /etc/shadowsocks

create profile

vim /etc/shadowsocks/config.json

Edit profile

{
    
	"server":"0.0.0.0",
	"server_port":8116,
	"local_address":"127.0.0.1",
	"local_port":1080,
	"password":"password",
	"timeout":300,
	"method":"aes-256-cfb",
	"fast_open":false,
	"workers": 1
}

Ports and passwords can be customized .

start-up

#  start-up 
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d start
#  stop it 
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d stop
#  Restart 
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d restart

Check whether the startup is successful

ps -aux | grep ssserver

Set boot up

vim /etc/rc.local

Paste and save the following contents ：

sudo ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json -d start

Save and exit , You can restart the instance to verify .

Configure client

download ShadowSocks And install , Open the server configuration ：

Just fill in the corresponding contents in the configuration file .

Conclusion

OK, Go through the above steps , We have AWS The virtual machine has been free for one year . You can play freely on it , I need to remind you , It is better to turn on the bill notification in the bill control panel , So as not to cause additional costs . Set a reminder after one year , Remind yourself to close this account .