Launch RStudio from AWS

Louis Aslett has created AMI templates to bootup a virtual machine with the necessary tools and dependencies to run RStudio out of the box (Louis Aslett’s Website)

1. Log into AWS account
2. Go to Louis Aslett’s website and click on the AMI of relevant region (e.g.,R 3.6.0 us-east-2)
3. Once in the EC2 Management Console, select t2.micro instance type
4. When configuring Security Group,
   1. Select Add Rule and add HTTP
   2. For SSH and HTTP Rules, select Anywhere as Source
5. Select key-pair
6. Launch Instance
7. Copy IPv4 Public IP and open in new tab
8. username = rstudio; password = Instance ID