How to get RedHat GUI Linux on AWS
This section describes how to launch and connect to RedHat GUI Linux in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Open Redhat GUI Linux VM listing on AWS marketplace

- Click on Continue to subscribe.
- Login with your credentials and follow the instruction.click on Continue to configuration
- Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as US East (N.Virginia))

- Choose Action: You can launch it through EC2 or from Website.(Let's choose Launch from website)

- Optionally change the EC2 instance type. (This defaults to t2.medium instance type, 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM)
- Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.

- Select the Security Group. Be sure that whichever Security Group you specify have ports 22 (for ssh) and 3389 (for RDP) exposed.
- Be sure to download the key-pair which is available by default, or you can create the new key-pair and download it.

- Click on Launch..
RedHat GUI Linux will begin deploying.
- A summary page displays.To see this instance on EC2 Console click on EC2 Console link.

- On the EC2 Console page, instance is up and running. To connect to this instance through putty, copy the IPv4 Public IP Address

- Open putty, paste the IP address and browse your private key you downloaded while deploying the VM, by going to SSH->Auth , click on Open.


- login as ec2-user. Now you are connected as ec2-user user

- Change the password for ec2-user by running-
sudo passwd ec2-user

- Now passwd is set for ec2-user , you can connect to the VM's desktop environment from any local Windows Machine using RDP protocol or Linux Machine using Remmina.
From your local windows machine, goto "start" menu , in the search box type and select "Remote desktop connection".
In the "Remote Desktop connection" wizard, copy the public IP address and click connect

- This will connect you to the VM's desktop environment.Click yes on certificate warning. Provide username as ec2-user and password set in the above step to authenticate. Click OK

- Now you are connected to the out of box RedHat GUI Linux environment via Windows Machine.

- To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu , in the search box type and select "Remmina".
Note: If you don't have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, first Install Remmina as per your linux distribution.

- In the "Remmina Remote Desktop Client" wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

- This will connect you to the VM's desktop environment.Accept the certificate warning and provide username as ec2-user and password set in above step to authenticate. Click OK
- Now you are connected to out of box RedHat GUI Linux environment via Linux machine.

- Run below command to add new user
sudo adduser username

- Once user is added, set the password of that user by running-
sudo passwd username
- Now add newly created user to the wheel group to give the sudo access by running below command-
sudo usermod -aG wheel username

- Now new user setup is completed. You can use this user to connect to the RedHat GUI Dekstop environment.

- Now you are connected to out of box RedHat GUI Dekstop environment with new user. Follow the gnome-initial-setup.

- Double Click on Desktop icons and select trust and launch
