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ND9991 C02 L01 A15 Outro

Manually deploy an EC2 Instance for use with the CLI Tool.

Task Description:

We have installed and configured the AWS CLI to do our work for this course. However, there’s an alternative.

Go ahead and create an EC2 Instance that you can SSH into (or Remote Desktop, if you prefer Windows). Do this manually, in the console. Be sure to limit access to your IP address only, using Security Groups.

Once the instance is running, create an IAM Role with Admin access to your account, associate the role to your EC2 and install the AWS CLI on it.

The CLI tool, in this case, will pick up the credentials from the role and won’t need hard-coded credentials

Task Feedback:

This is a convenient way to have a properly configured - and secure - server that you can use to test and not have to worry about credentials