Provision AWS EC2 Instance

Steps to provision EC2 Instance

This blog shows how to create EC2 instance.

• Go to Compute and click EC2
• Click Launch instance at EC2
• Choose Amazon Linux 2 AMI
• Choose Free Tier, t2.micro
• Choose Configure Instance Details
• Launch with default VPC
• Enable termination protection
• Tenancy, use shared for now
• Enable hibernation as an additional stop behavior
• At add storage, use default root volume
• check delete on termination, when deleting EC2 this root device will also be deleted
• make it encryption during the create the EC2 instance
• Add tags
• Add tags so each to differentiate
• Configure Security Group
• assume just need SSH
• so SSH, TCP, Port is 22, 0.0.0.0/0
• Click review and launch
• Create a new private key pair
• Click launch instance, should be able to see the instance is launching.