Set up a free overseas remote desktop in ten minutes | Use the free plan of Amazon Lightsail service to easily set up a remote desktop

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Easily set up a remote desktop with the free plan of Amazon Lightsail service

Preface

①This tutorial will introduce you to how to easily build your own remote desktop using the free plan of Amazon Lightsail service. Relying on Amazon's global availability zone, you can build a remote desktop that meets your configuration needs from anywhere in the world.

②This tutorial requires you to have an Amazon Cloud Technology overseas account first. Nowregister an Amazon Cloud Technology accountto enjoy12-month free package, Including EC2 and other popular products.

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Tutorial description

①Click the button on the right "Log in to the console" to enter the development environment. If you do not have an account yet, please register an account first.

②For overseas regional business or personal use, please register "overseas regional account";

③For China regional business (requires enterprise business license certification), please register "China regional account".

1. Start an Amazon Lightsail instance

Find Lightsail under (Compute) in all services, and click to open the Lightsail control panel.

After entering the Amazon Lightsail welcome screen, click Create instance to create and configure a Lightsail instance. You can also select Chinese in the language option in the lower right corner for convenient settings.

2. Configure remote desktop

In the pop-up setting interface, from top to bottom, you can choose:

The IP location of the virtual desktop;
Operating system platform (it is recommended that beginners choose Windows for easier management. If there are no special requirements for the virtual desktop system version, just choose the latest version of Windows);
Configuration and paid plans (the current free trial configuration can be experienced for 3 months);

After selecting, clickCreate instance.

An instance status of "Pending" means that a Lightsail instance is being created for you.

3. Start remote desktop

Wait a moment and the instance displays "Running", which means the configuration has been completed. And there will be1monitor icons in the upper right corner.

After clickmonitor icon, the virtual desktop window will pop up.

4. Use Remote Desktop

Can call virtual keyboard input

You can also use the Remote Clipboard function in the lower right corner to enter characters, then copy and paste them into the remote desktop.

You can use the browser in the virtual desktop to query the IP address of the current remote desktop.

Summarize

We have set up the remote desktop above. This tutorial is based on the official document:Practical Tutorial - Amazon Cloud Technology

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