Working with Instances: An Amazon EC2 Walkthrough

CLOUD LABS

Working with Instances: An Amazon EC2 Walkthrough

In this Cloud Lab, you’ll create an EC2 instance and bootstrap and host a web server on the created instance. You’ll test your hosted web service through the browser and EC2 Instance Connect.

7 Tasks

beginner

1hr

Certificate of Completion

Desktop OnlyDevice is not compatible.

No Setup Required

Amazon Web Services

Learning Objectives

An understanding of EC2 instances

Working knowledge of key pairs in AWS

Working knowledge of security groups in AWS

The ability to launch and manage new Amazon EC2 instances

Hands-on experience in deploying web applications on Amazon EC2 instances

Technologies

AWS

EC2

Desktop Only

No Setup Required

Amazon Web Services

Labs Rules Apply

Stay within resource usage requirements.

Do not engage in cryptocurrency mining.

Do not engage in or encourage activity that is illegal.

Cloud Lab Overview

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a service that launches instances, also known as virtual servers, on which we can host web pages and various other applications. Amazon EC2 provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

You’ll create an EC2 instance and bootstrap it to host a web server on the created instance. You’ll then test the hosted web service through the browser and using the EC2 Instance Connect service.

After completing this Cloud Lab, you’ll be able to launch instances in numerous combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and network capacities. You’ll also be able to configure and choose the most optimized bundle of resources according to your project’s use cases.

The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the final infrastructure that you will build in this Cloud Lab:

Cloud Lab Tasks

1.Introduction

Getting Started

2.Network and Security

Create a Security Group

Create a Key Pair

3.EC2 Instance

Launch an Instance

Test the Instance

4.Conclusion

Clean Up

Wrap Up

Labs Rules Apply

Stay within resource usage requirements.

Do not engage in cryptocurrency mining.

Do not engage in or encourage activity that is illegal.

Before you start...

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