Lab 1‐1: Accessing the AWS Sandbox in Cloud Foundations Course - skyleroriordan/my-tech-journal GitHub Wiki

Accessing Sandbox

In modules scroll down and click on sandbox.

In top right corner click start lab

To get account number and user ID use command: aws sts get-caller-identity

Click AWS button to get to AWS console home

To launch an EC2 instance search for EC2 on the AWS console and go to click launch instance from the EC2 dashboard. Name the instance and use default key pair. Create new security group that lets in inbound SSH. Then launch.

To SSH into an instance download the .pem key file by clicking details then PEM. Start powershell then go to the Downloads folder with the PEM file. Copy the public IP address from the instance in AWS console. Then run ssh -i labuser.pem ec2-user@public-ip-address on powershell