FOLLOW DIRECTION OF EACH LAB IN ATTACHMENT! IT WILL DETAIL YOU EVERYTHING STEP BY STEP SO IT SHOULB BE PRETTY EASY.
LAB 1
What you’ll achieve:
- Deploy a VPC
- Deploy an EC2 with CentOS Linux
- Install a simple Apache Web server
- Create an S3 bucket, place files in it, and set permissions
- Create a simple Web page to link to your file’s URL
What you’ll turn in with this lab:
- A URL to the Web page containing the link to your file in S3 (not a direct link to the file in your S3 bucket);
- Short answers to the review questions from each Task.
NOTE: You MUST have an AWS Free Tier account to do this Lab, and should have set one up as part of previous class announcements. If you do not already have an AWS Free Tier account, please sign up for one at https://aws.amazon.com/free/ (Links to an external site.) prior to starting this Lab.
Download the guide to completing the Lab here:
LAB 2
Our second Lab will focus primarily on Auto Scaling, one of the most powerful features in AWS and any cloud computing platform, that allows you to horizontally “scale out” additional resources when your static resources are under duress. This allows your systems to remain online perpetually, achieving “high availability” and not succumbing to heavy traffic like an on-premises environment might.
In the previous Lab, you set up a web server infrastructure that accessed files on an external file server (S3). While we won’t necessarily utilize your Web site in a highly-available fashion, we will use the instance you’ve already created in Lab #1 as a baseline for creating our AMIs and Launch Configurations in support of this Auto Scaling Lab.
What you’ll achieve:
- Create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the EC2 instance you deployed in Lab #1
- Create a Launch Configuration from this AMI
- Configure an Auto Scaling Group from your Launch Configuration, to automatically deploy additional instances when the CloudWatch Alarm is triggered
- Create said CloudWatch Alarms that monitor instance CPU utilization
- Use a stress-testing tool to create fake load and force an Auto Scaling event
- Terminate resources from both Lab #1 and #2 to prevent your credit card from being charge
What you’ll turn in with this lab:
- Detailed answers to the review questions from each Task.
Download the guide to completing the Lab here:
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