week1-cloud-vm

Launching and securing my first cloud VM using AWS EC2 and SSH

Week 1 – Launch & Secure a VM in the Cloud 🚀

🔍 What I Did

• Created an Ubuntu EC2 instance on AWS
• Configured security groups to allow SSH access
• Downloaded and secured my .pem key with chmod 400
• Connected to the VM via SSH
• Explored the .ssh directory and file permissions
• Queried instance metadata using IMDSv2 and token-based access

🧠 What I Learned

• How cloud VMs are provisioned and secured
• SSH key management and Linux file permissions
• Basics of AWS metadata service and IMDSv2

🛠️ Tools Used

• AWS EC2
• SSH
• Linux Terminal
• curl
• IAM roles

📸 Screenshots

EC2 Instance Running

SSH Terminal Connection

Metadata Query Output

Security Group Configuration

🔗 Resources

• AWS EC2 Documentation
• AWS IMDSv2 Guide