Running LAMP, Ubuntu and Symfony on Amazon's EC2 - It's Awesome! (Part 1) > thatsquality.comSigning Up & Downloading your Private Key and Certificate files To get started, you'll need both an EC2 account and an S3 account. EC2 - The actual cloud computing account S3 - Storage, used to save images of your server After you signup, you'll need to download 2 files: a Private Key and a Certificate file. These are basically the keys to the mansion. Here's a great resource on this simple step
https://www.edukatr.com/how-to-start-an-ec2-ubuntu-server-for-your-developer-in-6-minutes/
