Welcome!

If you are like me, you want to participate in LearnToRace, but have had some trouble navigating AWS to use credits instead of their PC directly. If so, this is the guide for you!

To start, please make sure you have the following systems installed. It might work without these systems, but this is what has worked for me!


Beginning: Service Requests

If you are like me, and have not used AWS ever before, you’ll want to through the AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials course. You can try to go without it, as it’s not strictly necessary to follow the guide, but the terminology is very important, and it will ensure you have no misconceptions regarding usage, as again it can be quite expensive to use AWS instances without the proper billing strategies attached:

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With that caution aside, let’s start by requesting the associated resources. If your account is as new as mine, you’ll need to request for 4 “VCPUs” of G-family instances, which are the family our desired instance, the “g4dn.xlarge”, comes from:

  1. Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/
  2. Click the orange “Create Case” button
  3. Click the “Service limit increase” section
  4. Change the “Limit Type” to “EC2 Instances”
  5. Add the request accordingly, following your region and other associated parameters. Be sure to tell AWS that you wish to use it for the challenge, as that helps them prioritize your case.

At the end, you’ll want to see something like the following:

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After confirming you have 4 VCPUs requested, submit the request, and wait 4-24 hours at least. This process will take time to process.

With that done, we can then get started with the setup.