
In the first step, choose the application you want installed on your computer and the AWS Region to be located in.
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You can see my research computers naming “ channy-jupyter” or “ channy-rstudio” already created.Ĭhoose Create virtual computer to create a new research computer, and select which software you’d like preinstalled on your computer and what type of research computer you’d like to create. To get started, navigate to the Lightsail for Research console, and choose Virtual computers in the left menu. Get Started with Amazon Lightsail for Research


Lightsail for Research also includes all-inclusive prices of compute, storage, and data transfer, so you know exactly how much you will pay for the duration you use the research computer. You can also use budgeting controls that can automatically stop your computer when it’s not in use. You pay only for the duration the computers are in use and can delete them at any time. Also, you can easily upload data to and download from your research computer via a simple web interface. You can create your own research environments and directly access the application running on the research computer remotely via a web browser. You no longer need to use your own research laptop or shared school computers for analyzing larger datasets or running complex simulations. You can use your preferred integrated development environments (IDEs) like preinstalled Jupyter, RStudio, Scilab, VSCodium, or native Ubuntu operating system on your research computer. Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Lightsail for Research, a new offering that makes it easy for researchers and students to create and manage a high-performance CPU or a GPU research computer in just a few clicks on the cloud.
