01 - EC2 Linux Lab

AWS Immersion Day
EC2 Hands-On Lab

Getting Started with Linux on Amazon EC2
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EC2 Overview
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the
cloud. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal
friction. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you
to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the
economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.
This lab will walk you through launching, configuring, and customizing an EC2 web server using the AWS
Management Console.
Create a new Key Pair

In this lab, you will need to create an EC2 instance using an SSH keypair. The following steps outline creating a
unique SSH keypair for you to use in this lab.
1. Sign into the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon EC2 console at
https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2.
2. In the upper-right corner of the AWS Management Console, confirm you are in the desired AWS region (e.g.,
Sydney).
3. Click on Key Pairs in the NETWORK & SECURITY section near the bottom of the leftmost menu. This will
display a page to manage your SSH key pairs.
4. To create a new SSH key pair, click the Create Key Pair button at the top of the browser window.
5. In the resulting pop up window, type [First Name]-[Last Name]-ImmersionDay into the Key Pair Name: text
box and click Create.
6. The page will download the file “[Your-Name]-ImmersionDay.pem” to the local drive. Follow the browser
instructions to save the file to the default download location.
7. Remember the full path to the file .pem file you just downloaded.
You will use the Key Pair you just created to manage
your EC2 instances for the rest of the lab.
Launch a Web Server Instance
In this example we will launch an Amazon Linux 2 instance, bootstrap Apache/PHP, and install a basic web page
that will display information about our instance.
Sign into your AWS Management Console and choose EC2 from the Services menu.
Upon logging into your AWS Console, you should

ALWAYS check which region you are operating in. This
can be found in the top right of your Console window.
1. Click on Launch Instance
2. In the Quick Start section, select the first Amazon Linux 2 AMI and click Select.
3. In the Choose Instance Type tab, select the t2.micro instance size and click Next.
If it isn't labeled "Free Tier Eligible", you may incur a charge!
4. On the Configure Instance Details page, expand the Advanced Details section, copy/paste the script below
into the User Data field (this shell script will install Apache & PHP, start the web service, and deploy a simple
web page). Click Next.
'User data' is a method for bootstrapping your

instance - Any code placed here will be executed the
first time an instance is launched.
#include
https://s3.amazonaws.com/immersionday-labs/bootstrap.sh
5. On this page you have the ability to modify or add storage and disk drives to the instance. For this lab, we will
simply accept the storage defaults and click Next.
6. Here, we choose a “friendly name” for your instance by choosing ‘click to add a Name tag’. This name, more
correctly known as a tag, will appear in the console once the instance launches. It makes it easy to keep track
of running machines in a complex environment. Name yours as: “[Your Name] Web Server”, and then click
Next.
7. You will be prompted to create a new security group, which will be your firewall rules. On the assumption that
we are building out a Web server, name your new security group “[Your Name] Web Tier”, and confirm an
existing SSH rule exists which allows TCP port 22 from Anywhere. Click Add Rule.:
8. Select HTTP from the ‘Type’ dropdown menu, and confirm TCP port 80 is allowed from Anywhere (you’ll
notice, that “Anywhere is the same as ‘0.0.0.0/0’). Click Add Rule.
9. Click the Review and Launch button after configuring the security group.
10. Review your cofiguration and choices, and then click Launch.
11. Select the key pair that you created in the beginning of this lab from the drop-down and check the "I
acknowledge" checkbox. Then click the Launch Instances button.
12. Click the View Instances button in the lower righthand portion of the screen to view the list of EC2 instances.
Once your instance has launched, you will see your Web Server as well as the Availability Zone the instance is
in, and the publicly routable DNS name.
13. Click the checkbox next to your web server to view details about this EC2 instance.
Browse the Web Server

1. Wait for the instance to pass the Status Checks to finish loading.
Finished initializing
Open a new browser tab and browse the Web Server by entering the EC2 instance’s Public DNS name into the
browser. The EC2 instance’s Public DNS name can be found in the console by reviewing the “Public DNS” name
line highlighted above.
You should see a website that looks like the following:
If you don’t see the web page (and you’ve waited a

sufficient time for the instance to boot), try rebooting
the instance via the console. Can you find it??
Great Job! You have deployed a server and launched a web site in a matter of minutes!!

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AWS Immersion Day

EC2 Hands-On Lab

Create a new Key Pair

Launch a Web Server Instance

Upon logging into your AWS Console, you should

1. Click on Launch Instance

If it isn't labeled "Free Tier Eligible", you may incur a charge!

'User data' is a method for bootstrapping your

Browse the Web Server

You should see a website that looks like the following:

If you don’t see the web page (and you’ve waited a

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