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Amazon Web Services

Lab - Using the AWS CLI for Automation

Amazon Web Services and Amazon via AWS Skill Builder

Overview

This lab provides you with hands-on experience using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Command Line Interface (CLI), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), and user data.


Objectives


   •   Review the user-data.txt script to learn what it does.

   •   Update the Amazon EC2 CLI command to successfully launch an instance.

   •   Run the Amazon EC2 CLI command to retrieve the public IP address of the Nginx web server.

   •   Verify the NGINX web server is accessible and accepting web requests.


Prerequisites


Familiarity with the AWS Cloud9 interface is helpful as you open a file to view its contents and modify a command with the text editor.


Outline


Task 1: Review the user data file

Task 2: Update the AWS CLI command to Create an Amazon EC2 instance

Task 3: Verify the user data ran successfully

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