How it works...

Once you click on Launch Instance, it will create and boot up a Linux machine on AWS, assigning the instance an ID, public DNS, and public IP through which we can access it.

Moving to the Instances section of the EC2 Dashboard, you can see the instance running, as shown in the following screenshot:

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