3.8.2 Create an Amazon EC2 Instance

When the gears stop spinning on the top of the Amazon Lightsail home page, you can continue to the final step of deploying the actual Amazon EC2 instance.

1. Return to the Lightsail console home page.
2. At the top of the page, click the gears and select ‘Open the Amazon EC2 console’. This will launch the Amazon EC2 console to the AMI page, with your newly created AMI selected.
3. Click the ‘Launch’ button.
4. From the bottom of the next screen, click ‘Next: Configure Instance Details’
5. Ensure the new instance is being created in the default VPC.
6. Click ‘Next: Add Storage’
7. Click ‘Next: Add Tags’
8. The web front end needs to be accessible from the internet, so you need to open incoming access for HTTP (port 80) in the security group.

   Click ‘Next: Configure Security Group’

9. Provide the values for the security group name and description.
10. Click ‘Add Rule’ then configure:
    • ‘Type’: HTTP
    • Click ‘Review and Launch’
11. Click ‘Launch’
12. On the key pair screen, you can either create a new key pair or use an existing one. You don’t need to use SSH to access the instance for this lab — so it doesn’t matter which one you pick but - if you don’t have an existing key pair, you must create a new one.
13. Select ‘I acknowledge that...’
14. Click ‘Launch Instances’
15. Click ‘View Instances’
16. Copy the ‘IPv4 Public IP’ address to your clipboard.
17. Wait for the instances to display:
    • ‘Instance Status:’ running
    • ‘Status Checks:’ 2//2 checks passed