open Instances | EC2 Management Console

Click Instances

Make Sure you must have a EC2 Instance (Linux Based ex. Amazon Linux) Running. ### Instance Status Shows as **Instance State** -- **Running** **Status Check** -- **2/2 checks passed** Once done click Next on the Supervity Instruction widget.

Click "Refresh" instances. To make sure of Instance Status. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget.

Click and Type to search for instances and hit 'Enter'. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Select your Instance. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Click "Connect".

Click "EC2 Instance Connect" ### EC2 Instance Connect Amazon EC2 Instance Connect provides a simple and secure way to connect to your instances using Secure Shell (SSH). Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Select "Connect using EC2 Instance Connect" under Connection Type. ### Note: Connect using the EC2 Instance Connect browser-based client, with a public IPv4 address Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Click Connect

Wait for "Establishing Connection loading.. " to finish. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

It automatically logins with default user 'ec2-user'. Now you can able to type commands in the Terminal. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Click Terminal input. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

First update your System. Type: **sudo yum update -y**, press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Create a Directory name: 'data1' Type: **mkdir data1** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Change directory to 'data1' Type: **cd data1**, press Enter Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Create a file with a text ex. "Hello AWS' Type: ``` echo Hello AWS > f1 ``` press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Check directory content. Type: **ls** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Check content in the file. Type: **cat f1** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Return to the pervious directory. Type: **cd ..** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Type: **ls** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

To Switch user form 'ec2-user' to 'root' user. Type: **sudo su** , press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

Try install a package (Ex. Apache httpd). Type: **yum install httpd -y**, press Enter. Once done, Click Next on the supervity Instruction widget

This completes the task to connect to your EC2 Instance using Web Browser based connection and Practice some sample Linux commands. Once done, Click Close on the supervity Instruction widget