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Learn how to transfer management of your domain's DNS records to Amazon Lightsail so that you can easily direct traffic for your domain, like example.com, to your instance.
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Learn how to set up a Secure SHell (SSH) connection to your Linux/Unix-based Lightsail instance (a virtual private server).
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Learn how to configure a Linux/Unix-based virtual private server (a virtual machine or instance) with additional data in Amazon Lightsail.
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Learn how to create a snapshot of your Linux/Unix-based instance (a virtual private server) in Amazon Lightsail.
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Learn how to set up PuTTY to connect to your Lightsail instance (a virtual private server).
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Learn how to create a new access key to use the Amazon Lightsail API or the AWS Command Line Interface.
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Learn how to install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface to work with Lightsail.
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Learn how to set up VPC peering to connect to your Lightsail resources to AWS resources, such as an Amazon RDS database.
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Learn how to create a HAR file.