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== Explore your new VM ==
Look at your ops435-first instance details and find its automatically-assigned public IP address. Connect to it with SSH. Note that you need to user your private key to connect, and since it doesn't have a default name nor is it in the default location for SSH keys: you need to specify the path to it manually.
* You user information files ('''/etc/passwd''', '''/etc/shadow''', '''/etc/group''') are used in a completely standard way.
* Have a look at the output of '''netstat -atnp''' and '''netstat -aunp''' to see what ports services are listening on in a default installation.
It's not completely clear what Amazon's policies are for supporting Amazon Linux. From people's experience it appears to be quite stable, but as a rolling release you might not want to depend on it for production use. For our learning purposes it's plenty stable and consistent. One nice thing about Amazon Linux is that it is not linked to RedHat/IBM support cycles and policies which have changed significantly after IBM's acquisition of RedHat.
== Change the default username ==
