This is an early draft of this guide, which currently does not include any screenshots. I may be making a lot of assumptions about what you do or do not know in this guide and so I welcome any constructive criticism to help make it more useful. Please feel free to fork this guide and annotate it where it does not work, I would welcome any pull requests to improve this documentation.
- From Amazon's EC2 page, go to Launch Instance
- Choose an Amazon Linux 64-bit server and continue
- Select t2.micro (this is the free tier)
- Continue to the Add Storage page and adjust this up to 30GB if you're so inclined (default is 8GB, which is plenty)
- Tag your instance with a name like "notebook"