[Newbies can do it] AWS Amazon Cloud EC2: Change IP and reduce hard disk, dual-boot Linux and Windows without charging

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This series is about operations without discussing the principles. As long as you can copy and paste, you can complete the operations in my video. However, since I don’t understand technology myself, if you encounter technical problems, you can only hope to save yourself in the comment section.

Hello, everyone. When it comes to Amazon Cloud, there are two things that are well known:

First of all, registration is simple, and the cloud server has a one-year free period;

Secondly, the billing is complicated, and many users are cheated during the free period;

In the near future, I will talk about the incomplete experience of avoiding pitfalls in Amazon Cloud deductions. As for this issue, I will talk about a slightly harder-core topic, which is also a tutorial that you can't see online at present, and it may be the first release, that is:

During the first year of free registration with Amazon, you can first change IPv4 to IPv6, and then adjust the hard disk space that the system does not originally allow to be reduced, so as to achieve the goal of creating two instances of Linux and Windows for free at the same time.

Next, let's do it in practice (see video):

1. IPv4 to IPv6

1. VPC settings

1. "Your VPC" - Edit CIDR - Add new IPv6 CIDR

2. Subnet - Edit IPv6 CIDR - Add IPv6 CIDR

3. Routing Table - Edit Routing - Add Internet Gateway

(II) EC2 settings

Networking - Manage IP addresses - Add ipv6, turn off ipv4

Security Group - Add IPv6 inbound/outbound rules

3. Remote login

Change the IP address to ipv6 (do not use the displayed intranet IP), and keep the rest unchanged

2. Lower Windows hard disk space settings

1. EC2 management terminal

1. On the left menu, click EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Volume - Create Volume (22G)

2. In the upper right corner, select Operation - Mount Volume - Mount to the corresponding instance.

(II) Window side

1. Open Disk Management - Connect the new volume (22G) but do not partition it

2. Download Partition Assistant Server Edition:Download Link

3. Adjust/move the partition to around 21.8G (because the default installation size of the Linux instance is 8G)

4. Copy the partition - copy the original 21.8G to the new disk

(III) Return to EC2

1. Separate the volumes - separate both volumes first

2. Delete the 30G volume

3. Mount the 22G volume, path: /dev/sda1

Finally, create the Linux instance normally.

As long as you strictly copy my operations, you will be able to do the same as me.

As for whether it is worthwhile to create such a Windows instance, I think it is still somewhat useful. In particular, using it to simulate the local environment and purchase various applications and services is more convenient than the combination of residential IP and fingerprint browser. At least you no longer have to worry about a few dollars for 1G of traffic and use it whenever you want.

Add something that is not mentioned in the video：Many domestic websites, including Baidu, do not have IPv6 resolution, which makes them unable to be opened. This shocked me. If anyone knows a solution, please tell me in the comment section. However, this does not affect me much, as websites like Google/Amazon can be opened normally, so I am too lazy to find a solution.

If you download software like Partition Assistant after changing to IPv6, you may not be able to open domestic websites. In this case, you can download it on your own computer first, and then copy and upload it.

Well, that's it for this video. The relevant text will be placed in the notes area and my blog.

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