Lab Information
The Nautilus DevOps Team has received a new request from the Development Team to set up a new EC2 instance. This instance will be used to host a new application that requires a stable IP address. To ensure that the instance has a consistent public IP, an Elastic IP address needs to be associated with it. The instance will be named xfusion-ec2, and the Elastic IP will be named xfusion-eip. This setup will help the Development Team to have a reliable and consistent access point for their application.
Create an EC2 instance named xfusion-ec2 using any linux AMI like ubuntu, the Instance type must be t2.micro and associate an Elastic IP address with this instance, name it as xfusion-eip.
Lab Solutions
Step-by-Step Instructions (AWS Console)
- Log in to AWS Console
Use your lab credentials and confirm the region is us-east-1 (N. Virginia).
- Launch the EC2 Instance 2.1 Open EC2
Search for EC2 → click Launch instance
2.2 Name the Instance
Under Name and tags:
Name: xfusion-ec2
2.3 Choose Linux AMI
Under Application and OS Images (AMI), select any Linux AMI, for example:
Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS or Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
2.4 Choose Instance Type
Select t2.micro
2.5 Key Pair
Choose an existing key pair or create a new one (lab usually allows either)
2.6 Network Settings
Use default VPC
Use default security group
Ensure Auto-assign public IP is Enabled (EIP will replace it later)
2.7 Launch
Click Launch instance
Wait until the instance state becomes Running and status checks pass (2/2).
- Allocate an Elastic IP 3.1 Navigate to Elastic IPs
EC2 → Network & Security → Elastic IPs
3.2 Allocate Elastic IP
Click Allocate Elastic IP address
Leave defaults
Click Allocate
3.3 Name the Elastic IP
Select the newly created Elastic IP
Go to Tags → Manage tags
Add:
Key: Name
Value: xfusion-eip
Save
- Associate Elastic IP with EC2 Instance
Select xfusion-eip
Click Actions → Associate Elastic IP address
Set:
Resource type: Instance
Instance: xfusion-ec2
Private IP: Default
Click Associate
- Verify Configuration EC2 Instance
Public IPv4 address = Elastic IP
Instance name = xfusion-ec2
State = Running
Elastic IP
Name = xfusion-eip
Status = Associated
Instance = xfusion-ec2
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