Create a free virtual private server on Amazon Web Services
As an incentive to use their service, Amazon Web Services offers new users a “free tier” of service that provides a VPS “micro-instance” at no cost for one year.
The free tier of service is fairly flexible. Amazon AWS provides enough free hours to run the micro-instance twenty-four hours a day for a year. But if a user needs more services, he or she may create multiple micro instances and run them concurrently, which multiplies the rate the user consumes hours.
In this post, we’ll show how to set up the free server, and how to connect to it using SSH.
Create an AWS account
The first step is to create a user account on AWS. Go to the AWS Free Tier web page and click on “Sign up for AWS Account”
Then, click on “Create a free Account”.

Click on the “Free Account” button
Follow the directions provided on the AWS web site to set up a user account. You need to have a mobile phone for identity verification.
If you already have an account on amazon.com, you can use your already existing account to log into AWS services.
Create a free instance
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