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Launch an EC2 Instance Using AWS Systems Manager Automation Documents

In this lab, you’ll practice the use of Systems Manager automation to create EC2 instances. When you’re finished with this lab, you’ll have experience with this form of automation as a tool to manage EC2 resources.

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Rating (66)
Level
Intermediate
Duration
20m
Released
Jan 15, 2021

Lab author

Lab Author: Lane Stevens
Lane Stevens
Lane Stevens is Vice President and CTO at Mobilsense Technologies. He is an IT veteran with over 30 years of experience and has an in-depth background in telecommunications billing, provisioning systems, decision support, and OLTP applications. Current interests include IaC (Infrastructure as Code), data modeling, and database schema life-cycle management. Lane attended the University of Utah with bachelor's and master’s degrees in computer science. He and his family live in Alpine Utah, and he... more
Challenge

Determine AMI for EC2 Instance

You will use the launch wizard from the AWS EC2 Dashboard to determine the latest AMI for Amazon Linux 2. This value will be required by the AWS-supplied automation document.

Challenge

Create Key Pair

You will create a key pair to use in the creation of EC2 instances. This value will be required by the AWS-supplied Automation document.

Challenge

Launch EC2 Instance From Systems Manager Automation Document

You will select an AWS-provided Systems Manager automation document to launch an EC2 instance from the AWS Systems Manager dashboard.

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We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.

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Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!

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