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Create an AWS account if necessary. (Sign up here. Detailed instructions)
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Create a key pair as described last week.
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Go to this page, and click on "Launch with 1-click." (This will only cost 65c, as long as you complete the next step within the hour. 65c/hour after that, so don't dally.)
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Go to your Management Console, right click on the row for the instance you just created, then "Instance State" and "Terminate." Official instance-termination instructions.
When you try to launch, you may get the following message:
You have requested more instances (1) than your current instance limit of 0 allows for the specified instance type. Please visit http://aws.amazon.com... to request an adjustment to this limit.
If that happens, go to the limit-increase request page, and
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choose "US East (Northern Virginia)" for the region,
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set "New Limit Value" to 1,
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put the URL for this meetup in the "Use Case Description,"
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click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.