Free Forex VPS using Amazon AWS – Broker Spread

1. Go to friend.com.vn/free/

2. Click on Create a Free Account

AWS Free Tier

3. Fill in the required details. Use your actual email address as it will be used to validate your account.

Create AWS account

4. Once everything is filled in, you need to click on Continue

Amazon AWS free tier

5. Fill in the rest of your details. You will need to use a valid phone number as it will be used to verify your account.

Amazon details verification

6. Fill in your payment details. This will also need to be a valid credit card as Amazon will charge 1$ and send it back to you. It is required in case you exceed the free tier limits. However, this shouldn’t be the case as long as you stick to the instructions in this tutorial. Also, note that all details provided in the screenshots are fake and they are provided simply to help you navigate through the registration process.

Amazon payment information

7. Confirm your identity by entering again your phone number and request the verification code by SMS.

Phone verification

8. You will get an SMS containing the verification code. Example: Your Amazon Web Services (AWS) verification code is: 0471. Once you enter the 4 digit code and verify your phone number, you have finalised the verification procedure and you can proceed with the set-up of your account.

9. Choose Basic Plan.

Amazon AWS Free Plan

10. Choose your role & interest from the drop-down lists, then click on Submit.

AWS role and interest

11. Your account is now fully ready for setting up MT4 on your new free forex VPS using Amazon AWS.

AWS account ready

12. Click on Sign in to the Console.

AWS console login

13. Choose Root user to make sure you have no restrictions when you’re setting up your MT4 instance on the free VPS. Fill in your email address and click on Next.

Amazon AWS username

14. Enter your password and sign in to your new AWS account.

Login to AWS

15. Once you are signed in. You can change the default zone assigned to you. In this example, Ohio was assigned as the default zone for the AWS account. However, you should ideally have your MT4 VPS located in an area as close as possible to your broker. In our case, our broker is based in the UK and has its MT4 servers in a data center in London, so we will change Ohio to London. If you are unsure where your broker has its trading servers, you can check with client support to make sure that your execution latency will be minimal.

VPS default location

16. This is where you can change your zone for the AWS account where we will install MT4.

MT$ VPS location choice

17. Verify that your account has indeed changed to the zone you want your MT4 VPS to be located. You can see the new location on the top right of the screen.

MT4 VPS Zone

18. We are now ready to create the VPS itself. Click on Launch a virtual machine to create an EC2 instance.

Launch Amazon EC2

19. You can see at this step the available options of machines and operating systems

Amazon AWS OS

20. Search for Windows (unless you are a Linux power user and you have no issues installing MT4 on a Linux machine) and select a free tier eligible option. You can choose Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base.

Amazon Windows free tier

21. Select the default t2.micro which is also marked as Free tier eligible, then click on Review and Launch

VPS free tier eligible

22. Your EC2 instance is now ready and you can click Launch. Now you are required to create a key pair so you can generate the Password which will be used to access your Windows machine.

VPS key pair

23. Click on the default Choose an existing key pair and select Create a new key pair. You also need to enter a Key pair name. This can be anything you want, such as your name, etc. Then you need to click on Download Key Pair.

24. This will download a .pem file on your computer. In our example, the Key pair name chosen was brokerspread, so the file that was downloaded is friend.com.vn

Download PEM file

25. You are now ready to click on Launch Instances.

26. You will then be directed to a page that confirms the new EC2 instance was created.

Launch EC2 instance

27. You can then click on Connect.

Connect to AWS

28. In order to connect to the new server, you first need to get the password for it. Click on Get Password.

Generate AWS password

29. You will be prompted to choose the .pem file that you downloaded earlier when you created the Key Pair.

Upload PEM file

30. Once you choose the .pem file, this will upload the RSA key, which you can then use to Decrypt Password.

AWS Password Decryption

31. The password will then be displayed for your new VPS. The last part of the password below was covered for security reasons. You are now ready to download the Remote Desktop File which you will use to connect to the VPS.

Download VPS RDP

32. You should have on your computer the RDP file downloaded and ready to be open.

RDP download

33. When you click on the Remote Desktop Connection file, a security prompt will appear on your screen and you can click on Connect.

VPS connection

34. You need to enter your password that you decrypted earlier and then click on OK. For easier future access, you can also tick Remember me if you want to avoid pasting in your password every time.

VPS credentials

35. You do not need to worry about the security prompt, as this is normal behavior for a self-signed security certificate such as the one on the Amazon AWS instance you have just created. Click on Yes to proceed.

VPS certificate

36. The connection will be then established and you can use your VPS as you please. You can now install your broker’s MT4 just as easily as you do on your own computer.

VPS ready to install MT4

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