Installing TimescaleDB from a pre-build cloud image

1. Make sure you have an [Amazon Web Services account][aws-signup], and are signed in to [your EC2 dashboard][aws-dashboard].
2. Navigate to Images → AMIs.
3. In the search bar, change the search to Public images and type Timescale search term to find all available TimescaleDB images.
4. Select the image you want to use, and click Launch instance from image. <img class="main-content__illustration" width={1375} height={944} src="https://assets.timescale.com/docs/images/aws_launch_ami.webp" alt="Launch an AMI in AWS EC2"/>

After you have completed the installation, connect to your instance and configure your database. For information about connecting to the instance, see the AWS [accessing instance documentation][aws-connect]. The easiest way to configure your database is to run the timescaledb-tune script, which is included with the timescaledb-tools package. For more information, see the [configuration][config] section.

After running the timescaledb-tune script, you need to restart the Postgres service for the configuration changes to take effect. To restart the service, run sudo systemctl restart postgresql.service.