Creating Linux Instance Using CLI
Step1: Install AWS CLI.
Make sure you have the AWS CLI installed. Download Link
Step2: Configure AWS CLI
To configure AWS using the AWS CLI, IAM user credentials are required. These credentials,
including an access key ID and secret access key, must belong to an IAM user.
I. Create IAM user
i. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
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ii. Navigate to IAM Dashboard.
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iii. Navigate to User groups and click Create group.
iv. Now provide User group name and attach permission policies as required and Click
create group at the bottom right corner.
Attach permissions: “AdministratorAccess” , “AmazonEC2FullAccess”
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v. Navigate to Users and click Create user.
vi. Provide user name and click next
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Now, Select Permission options, then select user groups and click Next.
Now, in Review and create step Click create user.
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vii. Now, navigate to ‘Users’ and then click on the User name i.e. ‘user1’
viii. Now Click Security Credentials.
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Scroll down and to Access keys and click Create access key.
Then, Select Command Line Interface (CLI).
And Click Next.
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Now, Click ‘Create access key’.
Then, Download the .csv file and click Done.
The .csv file contains “Access key ID, Secret access key”.
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ix. Now to Configure AWS CLI, open ‘cmd’ prompt.
Write “aws configure ” command and press Enter key.
Now provide Access Key Id, Secret Key Access which are present in the
downloaded .csv file.
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Step3: Creating EC2 instance.
Write command : “aws ec2 run-instances --image-id ami-0611295b922472c22 --instance-
type t3.micro”
Now the Instance is created. To check, open EC2 Dashboard.
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Then, Click Instances.
Here, we can see that an instance is running.
1. Create Security Group Using CLI with HTTP Protocol
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Open cmd prompt.
To create security group
we can use, “create-security-group” command.
“aws ec2 create-security-group --group-name SecurityGroupName --description "created
using awscli" “
We get Security Group Id: “sg-0ca3c086ad0b9c821”
To authorize inbound traffic on port 80 (HTTP) in the security group
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We can use the “authorize-security-group-ingress” command.
“aws ec2 authorize-security-group-ingress --group-id your_group_id --protocol tcp --port
80 --cidr 0.0.0.0/0”
2. Attach the above Security Group with EC2 instance.
We can use “modify-instance-attribute” command.
“aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id your_instance_id --groups
your_group_id”
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3. To Stop & Terminate Instance Using CLI
We can use “terminate-instances” command.
“aws ec2 terminate-instances --instance-ids your-instance-id”
Now the instance gets terminated
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