How to mine Ethereum - AWS Cloud Mining [Tutorial]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a bundled remote computing service that provides cloud computing infrastructure over the Internet with storage, bandwidth and customized support.

In this tutorial we are going to create an Ubuntu Linux machine on Amazon Web Services EC2. An EC2 instance is a virtual server in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for running applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.

Step 1 - Sign In to the console

Step 2 - Under Amazon Web Services Choose EC2

Step 3 - Create Instance
To start using Amazon EC2 you will want to launch a virtual server, known as an Amazon EC2 instance.

1. Click Launch Instance
   
2. Select Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type.
3. Click the Review and Launch button
   (Save your public key and a private key!)

Step 4 - Connect your machine using PuTTY

Step 5 - Install Ethereum on your instance

1. Install geth using following commands

       sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
       sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-qt
       sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
       sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum-dev
       sudo apt-get update
       sudo apt-get install ethereum
   

2. Use geth to download the blockchain

      Load this command into the client: geth 
   

Step 6 - You need to create a new account on geth

      To generate a new account type enter command: geth account new

Step 7 - Start mining

You need to start the Geth RPC client with commands:

       screen
       geth --rpc console

After that hit control-A and control-D

Finally start the miner with commands:
screen
ethminer -G --opencl-device 0

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