This page journals content related to SYS-360 lab 1-1.

Table of contents:

• Accessing AWS Sandbox

• Creating an instance

  • Accessing the PEM SSH key

Accessing AWS Sandbox

First in "AWS Academy Cloud Foundations" I went to "Modules" and pressed the "Sandbox Environment" button (loaded the tools in a new browser window):

Once in the sandbox I pressed "Start Lab" (loading circle below appeared after pressing "Start Lab"):

A popup would then appear giving the lab status:

I waited for the lab to finish creation:

Then I pressed the "X" button in the upper right side of the popup and confirmed my identity in the bash terminal with aws sts get-caller-identity:

Then I clicked the "AWS" button in the upper right to open the AWS console:

Creating an instance

I used the search bar in the AWS console to search for and select "EC2":

After selecting EC2, I pressed the "Launch instance" button:

In the launch instance screen I set the following settings:

And pressed the "Launch instance" button on the right hand side which afterwards gave the following message that my instance launched:

In the EC2 "Instances" tab I could see my instance (could have got there with either the search bar or left hand menu):

Accessing the PEM SSH key

Back in the workbench I went to "Details" > "AWS" > "Show":

After clicking "Show" I got the following popup:

And I clicked "Download PEM", which downloaded my needed PEM file:

In "Instances" I selected my created instance > recorded the "Public IPv4 DNS":

And then SSH'd into my created instance with the SSH key (from the downloads folder!):

ssh -i .\labuser.pem [email protected]

Finally I pressed "End Lab" when I was done with the lab: