AWS EC2

Deploy and manage Amazon EC2 compute instances for production, staging, and development workloads.

When to Use This Skill

• Launching new compute instances for application hosting
• Building golden AMIs for consistent deployments
• Setting up auto-scaling groups behind load balancers
• Migrating workloads to Spot instances for cost savings
• Troubleshooting instance connectivity, performance, or launch failures
• Creating launch templates for repeatable infrastructure

Prerequisites

• AWS CLI v2 installed and configured (aws configure)
• IAM permissions: ec2:*, autoscaling:*, elasticloadbalancing:*, iam:PassRole
• An existing VPC with subnets (see aws-vpc (aws-vpc))
• SSH key pair created (aws ec2 create-key-pair --key-name my-key --query 'KeyMaterial' --output text > my-key.pem)