First off, firing up Ubuntu a few months ago was like putting in Windows XP when the last MS product you used was DOS. Wow, things have changed, and for the better.<BR><BR>That said, I'm still a guy ...

There's a number of options in your router for IP management that you may need, but is DHCP or a Static IP the right choice ...

Yup, in my experience, you can launch an instance and it will either be assigned a private IP from the subnet assigned to your VPC and then you can associate a public IP with it after (NAT essentially ...