Task 6---Upgrading to Amazon Elastic Cmpute Cloud (Amazon Lightsail: Deploying and Scaling Your First Cloud Application)

3.8 Task 6—Upgrading to Amazon Elastic Cmpute Cloud

Lesson 10. What are You Going to Do?

In the previous section, you worked through how to migrate an Amazon Lightsail database to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). In this ﬁnal lab, you will upgrade your Amazon Lightsail instance to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

To perform this upgrade you will:

Create a snapshot of your web front-end instance that uses Amazon RDS
Export that snapshot to Amazon EC2
Create a new Amazon EC2 instance from the exported snapshot
Update the Amazon RDS security group to include the security group for your Amazon EC2 instance

After you complete this task, the application can take advantage of the full set of features that are offered by other AWS services, such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS.

Amazon EC2

Offers secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud
Can quickly scale capacity
Reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances

Demonstration Video

The demonstration video Upgrade to an EC2 Instance will take you step by step through the lab process.

• Export the Lightsail Snapshot:
• Create an Amazon EC2 Instance:
• Update the Amazon RDS Security Group: