In this assignment you will use the AWS EC2 CLI or the AWS Cloud Formation automation tool for creating one Linux VM.

For CLI, use https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-ec2-launch.html

For CloudFormation, follow the instructions given here

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/GettingStarted.Walkthrough.html

• Modify the sample JSON or YAML template suitably
• Type and Key Name
• Run the automation script.
• Take screen shots of the Cloud Formation screen showing the status of the script
• Take screen shots of the AWS EC2 screen showing the running VM.
• Ensure that you can connect to the VM using SSH. Take screen shot of the ssh connection
• Stop the running VMs created by the automation script

References:

• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-instance.html
• https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/EC2InstanceWithSecurityGroupSample.template