Getting ready

For this recipe, you must have an existing key pair.

In this recipe, we are launching an instance of AWS Linux using an AMI ID in the us-east-1 region. If you are working in a different region, you will need to update your image-id parameter.

You must have configured your AWS CLI tool with working credentials.

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