Stand up an EC2 (chapter 10 lab review)

  • Sign in at console.aws.amazon.com
  • Go to EC2 (via services or other routes)
  • “Launch instances”
  • Fill in the form:
    • Name (do4ds-lab)
    • AMI: ubuntu
    • Type: t2.micro is free, might need larger later.
    • Key pair: Choose or create. pem version no matter what you’re on.
    • Security group: Choose or create.
    • Storage: For now we aren’t using anything more than the root.
      • We’ll add more when we need it in a later lab.
      • It’s fine if you already added some, though.
    • “Launch instance”
  • “Instance state” menu to stop or terminate between labs.