EC2
AMIs
EBS and EFS
Lab: App on EC2
Practice
Assignment
Cloud Track
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Implementation plan:
- What is an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) — a template for EC2 instances
- AWS-provided AMIs vs community AMIs vs custom AMIs
- Creating a custom AMI from a running instance
- Why custom AMIs matter: pre-baked vs bootstrap (user data) tradeoffs
- Instance metadata: what it is, how to query it (
http://169.254.169.254)
- Security groups recap: quick mention here (deep dive in Week 4)
- Practice: install software on an instance, create a custom AMI, launch a new instance from it
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