Launch the EC2 Instance

This example uses this AMI (which is provided by AWS): Amazon Linux AMI 2017.09.1 (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-f63b1193. The Amazon Linux AMI is an EBS-backed, AWS-supported image.

The default image includes AWS command-line tools: Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java.

The repositories include: Docker, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other packages.

Launch EC2 instance

  1. Select the Instance type. The Enterprise Console has only modest requirements, therefore you can select the t2.medium instance type.Select instance type
  2. Use the default instance settings.Default instance settings
  3. Increase the storage amount from the default 8 GB to 32 GB.Increase storage
  4. Assign the instance to the appd-ec-security-groupthat you created previously.Assign the instance