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Amazon EC2 provides a wide selection of instance types optimized to fit different use cases. Instances are virtual servers that can run applications such as Charon emulator products or the Charon VPC VE license server.

To start the creation of a new cloud instance using a general purpose Linux image, perform the following steps:

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This will open the E2C dashboard.

Please note: The following sample image shows the old E2C dashboard. The new dashboard looks somewhat different, but still has the Launch instance button.

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Clicking on one of the categories above will display a list of images. Select the appropriate Linux AMI (a supported Linux version or - if appropriate - a prepackaged Charon-SSP VE marketplace image).

This will take you to the next step, the instance type selection.

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In this section, you can set up the details of your instance configuration.
For example,

• you can select the VPC subnet your instance should be in, and
• whether an interface should automatically be assigned a public IP address. 

 Automatic Please note: Automatic assignment of a public IP address only works if there is only one network interface attached to the instance.

You can also assign the required IAM role (allowing the ListUsers action) to the instance.

Once you have selected all desired configuration options, click on Next: Add storage to continue.

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The size of the root volume depends on the minimum size for the Linux system plus any additional products you plan to install. You can add more storage later to provide space, for example for virtual disk containers (if this is a Charon host) and other storage requirements.

 It Please note: It is recommended to create separate storage space (using AWS EBS volumes) for any application data. If required, such volumes can later easily be migrated to another instance.

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The following sections will show you how to access the instance and how to perform additional storage and network configurations.

 If If you select your instance, the bottom of the screen will show a detailed description and status information of your instance.

Initial Access to the Instance

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Please note:

• Depending on the type of connection, you will have to use either the public IP address of the cloud system or its address in a customer-specific VPN.

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• The management user account normally allows sudo access to privileged commands (use sudo -i).

File Transfer with SFTP

SFTP enables file transfers to and from the cloud instance. Use the management user of your instance. The security rules must allow SSH access to allow SFTP access to the cloud instance.

Please note: Depending on the type of connection, you will have to use either the public IP address of the cloud system or its address in a customer-specific VPN.

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$ sftp -i <path-to-your-private-key> <management-user>@<cloudhost-IP-address>

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