Unable to setup AWS server

Staking & Delegation Setup a Stake Pool
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Hi everyone, I’m VERY new to the whole idea of running a stake pool but trying to diligently go through the stake pool school. I have a few questions.

  1. In the “setup a server on AWS” video, the caption says “To complete this course you need a Linux System. If you have a computer running linux you are all set to start setting up your node.” I have a computer running Linux, how would I go about setting up a node? Simply follow the next section and download the node to that laptop? Maybe I’m not understanding exactly how a server provider is the same as the Linux running laptop I have.
  2. When I follow the video to create an AWS instance, and get to connecting to my instance, this is what I get:
    Tylers-Air:~ tylerkosmas$ ssh -i “Relay.pem” ec2-user@ec2-3-143-238-182.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
    Warning: Identity file Relay.pem not accessible: No such file or directory.
    ec2-user@ec2-3-143-238-182.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
    Tylers-Air:~ tylerkosmas$ chmod 400 Relay.pem
    chmod: Relay.pem: No such file or directory
    Tylers-Air:~ tylerkosmas$ ssh -i “Relay.pem” ec2-user@ec2-3-143-238-182.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com
    Warning: Identity file Relay.pem not accessible: No such file or directory.
    ec2-user@ec2-3-143-238-182.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
    Tylers-Air:~ tylerkosmas$

Maybe I’m in way over my head here but I’m very determined to learn what I need to learn. Help a newb out:)

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You’ll compile everything on the server.

I suggest you go through the Coincashew tutorial. Also, some Linux administration skills are needed. It’s not required, but without those it’ll be much harder to understand everything.

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Regarding the pem. Do a ls in that directory and see if you have the Relay.pem file as it cannot find it.

This is the official AWS guide on how to ssh to an EC2 instance:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/connection-prereqs.html

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I think you should follow this guide to a degree. It maybe out-dated a bit but it seems aligned when your current experience level : 1. How to setup a Linux server on AWS. Stake Pool Course | Cardano Developer Portal

And probably stick to testnet for now til you’re comfortable enough switching over to mainnet and occurring the additional cost to run a pool.

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Thank you, unfortunately I was using the instructions from that stake pool school and that is where I ran into my issue.
I definitely plan on spending a significant amount of time on the test net before moving to mainnet(if ever).