Web Scraping from Cloud – WebHarvy on AWS EC2

WebHarvy requires Windows operating system to run. So in case you do not have access to a Windows PC or if you do not want to run WebHarvy on your local PC, you have the option to run WebHarvy from Cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform makes this possible. See the following link.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

Amazon EC2 lets you run a remote Windows instance in Cloud. You can access this cloud based Windows instance via Remote Desktop

https://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Charges for EC2 are minimal and more importantly there is a free tier available for 12 months with the following details.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Watch the following video which shows how to launch a Windows instance in Amazon EC2 and how to install/run WebHarvy from it.


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