Lab Information
The Nautilus DevOps team is strategizing the migration of a portion of their infrastructure to the AWS cloud. Recognizing the scale of this undertaking, they have opted to approach the migration in incremental steps rather than as a single massive transition. To achieve this, they have segmented large tasks into smaller, more manageable units.
For this task, create an EC2 instance with following requirements:
1) The name of the instance must be xfusion-ec2.
2) You can use the Amazon Linux AMI to launch this instance.
3) The Instance type must be t2.micro.
4) Create a new RSA key pair named xfusion-kp.
5) Attach the default (available by default) security group.
Lab Solutions
Step-by-Step Instructions (AWS Console)
- Log in
Use your console URL and credentials.
Ensure region = us-east-1 (N. Virginia).
- Navigate to EC2
Search for EC2 service in the console.
- Launch Instance
Click Launch instance.
- Configure Instance Details 4.1 Name the instance
In the "Name and tags" section:
Name: xfusion-ec2
4.2 Choose Amazon Linux AMI
Under “Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image) (AMI)”:
Select:
Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM), SSD Volume Type
(or Amazon Linux 2023 if that’s what your lab provides — both satisfy "Amazon Linux AMI")
4.3 Select Instance Type
Choose:
t2.micro
(Eligible for free tier, commonly used in labs)
4.4 Create Key Pair
Under Key pair (login):
Click Create new key pair
Enter:
Name: xfusion-kp
Key pair type: RSA
Private key file format: .pem (recommended)
Click Create key pair
(A .pem file downloads automatically — save it securely.)
4.5 Security Group
Under Network settings:
Choose Select existing security group
Select the default security group for the default VPC
(It will typically be named “default”)
No changes needed.
- Launch
Scroll down and click Launch instance.
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