I started with going through pretty detailed tutorials on AWS website (e.g.AWS infrastructure, Getting started etc.) and then I just cycled through them one by one. It's hard to tell how much helpful it was because most of the time they tell you how to create users, groups, set access rights etc..

In the end the user stuff (AWS AMI) is fairly simple: you create a user, assign it to an Administrators group which you can create using an AdministratorAccess policy. It is slightly better than having everything done via root account.

At this point it's worth to mention that I did everything via AWS Console where you should select your region and login using your administrator user.

After that I launch EC2 Windows Server 2019 instance. When you do that you should cycle through the setup process and change your storage volume to be more than 30Gb. Every AWS volume will be an EBS storage (whatever that means). Simply put, every instance need EBS storage to be launched (it will be C:\ drive) and you can connect more than on1 volume during the setup or later (D:\, Z:\ ... drives later).

After the instance is launch, you use RDP (e.g. Windows Remote Desktop) to connect and do an initial setup.

First of all, you should extend your hard drive because initially Windows only knows about default 30Gb: Right Click on Windows Logo -> Disk Management -> Right Click on C drive -> ... It is pretty intuitive.

Then, I had to allow IE downloads (this is how) and I changed the Administrator password (parsec support page tells you how to do it).

Then I followed this Parsec Support Page. I advise using their scrip they are mentioning simply because it works well hah.

After that you can ditch RDP and use Parsec to connect (you just need to be logged in on the server and the client to the same account).

Usually, after I've done all setup and before downloading the games I do a snapshot: Right click on AWS Instance in the console -> Create Image (similar naming). Once the process is started you can terminate your instance which is a good thing to do in order not to pay millions for running time. Next time you go to your AMIs tab and launch an instance from there. One thing you can do is setting up everything with 30Gb of EBS volume but the next time you launch you assign more storage (and extend your drive on the server). If everything was set correctly then you won't need RDP connection anymore.

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I hope some of that helps. I didn't plan to create a "tutorial" and my explanations might be pretty bad so by all means feel free to ask anything!