This section will create a new environment (see diagram below) that you will use for the workshop.
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Note
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It will take approximately 30 minutes for CloudFormation to automatically create your workshop environment, after completing the Step-by-step Guide below. |
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Important
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Read through all steps below and watch the quick video before clicking the Deploy to AWS button. |
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Click on the Deploy to AWS button and follow the CloudFormation prompts to begin.
File system creation is currently not supported in the following Availability Zones:
Region Availability Zone ID Mapping N. Virginia (us-east-1)
use1-az3
Open the us-east-1 VPC console for AZ mapping.
Oregon (us-west-2)
usw2-az4
Open the us-west-2 VPC console for AZ mapping.
Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
apse2-az3
Open the ap-southeast-2 VPC console for AZ mapping.
Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)
apne1-az3
Open the ap-northeast-1 VPC console for AZ mapping.
When selecting availability zones in the CloudFormation create stack wizard, take care not to select an availability zone mapped to one of the Availability Zone IDs listed above.
TipContext-click (right-click) the Deploy to AWS button and open the link in a new tab or window to make it easy to navigate between this github workshop and AWS Console. Region
Launch template with a new VPC
N. Virginia (us-east-1)
Ohio (us-east-2)
N. California (us-west-1)
Oregon (us-west-2)
Africa (Cape Town) (af-south-1)
Hong Kong (ap-east-1)
Mumbai (ap-south-1)
Seoul (ap-northeast-2)
Singapore (ap-southeast-1)
Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
Tokyo (ap-northeast-1)
Canada (ca-central-1)
Frankfurt (eu-central-1)
Ireland (eu-west-1)
London (eu-west-2)
Milan (eu-south-1)
Paris (eu-west-3)
Stockholm (eu-north-1)
Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1)
São Paulo (sa-east-1)
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Accept the defaults on the Prerequisite - Prepare template page and click Next.
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Accept the default stack name and click Next. Enter values for all parameters.
VPC CIDR
Select a CIDR that will be used for the VPC.
Availability Zones
Select two (2) availability zones for your VPC. An Amazon EC2 instance and the FSx file system will be created in the first availability zone.
Key Name
Select an EC2 key name. This key name is associated with a key pair used to securely connect (SSH) to the EC2 instance.
Email address
Enter the email address that will receive notifications for low free storage capacity CloudWatch alarms. Important! An AWS Notification Subscription Confirmation email will be sent to this email address when the CloudFormation stack is created. You must take the action described in that email to confirm the SNS topic subscription before the email address can start receiving alarm notifications.
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After you have entered values for all parameters, click Next.
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Accept the default values of the Configure stack options and Advanced options sections and click Next.
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Review the CloudFormation stack settings.
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Click both checkboxes in the blue Capabilities box at the bottom of the page.
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Click Create stack.
In approximately 15 minutes an email will be sent to the email address entered above (see sample below). Open the email message and click the Confirm subscription link. This will allow Amazon SNS to send CloudWatch alarm notifications to this email address during the workshop.
