The AWS EC2 instance hosts the Control Room installation. You can launch this instance from the AWS EC2 console.

You can choose a Windows or Linux EC2 instance based on your requirements and launch the EC2 instance.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you set up the following prerequisites before launching the EC2 instance.
  • Administrator privileges to create and launch the instance.
  • Security group
  • Key pair

Procedure

  1. Log in to AWS console as an administrator.
    Ensure that you select the same region in which your AWS VPC is available from the region drop-down on the navigation bar.
  2. Perform the following steps to launch the EC2 instance.
    1. Go to EC2 > Instances > Launch instances.
      The Launch an instance page displays.
    2. Enter an appropriate name in Name in the Name and tags section.
    3. Select an appropriate AMI from the Application and OS Images (Amazon Machine Image) section.
      You can select a Linux or Windows AMI based on your requirements.
    4. Select an instance from the Instance type.
      Ensure that you select a c5.2xlarge or similar instance type.
    5. Select the key pair that you had created in Key pair (login).
    6. Select Select existing security group > Common security groups and select the created security group.
    7. Perform the following in the Configure storage section.
      • Enter 100 in the GiB option for the Root volume.
      • Enter 200 in the GiB for the EBS volume.
    8. Go to Advanced details > Termination protection and select Enable.
      This setting ensures that the instance cannot terminate until you disable the Termination protection.
    9. Select Launch instance in the Summary panel to launch the EC2 instance.
      The instance appears on the Instances dashboard of the EC2 console.
  3. Perform the following steps to attach the instance profile that CloudFormation creates to the EC2 instance.
    1. Go to EC2 and select the Control Room EC2 instance.
    2. Go to Actions > Security > Modify IAM Role.
    3. Select the instance profile named aacs-profile-[AWS-REGION] from the drop-down list.
      The [AWS-REGION] is the region where the VPC is located.
      Note:
      • In case you have uninstalled the CloudFormation stack and reinstalled it, detach the profile and reattach it again.
      • If installation fails with Error when retrieving credentials from Ec2InstanceMetadata: No credentials found in credential_source referenced in profile default error, detach and reattach the profile.

Next steps

After you attach the instance profile to the Control Room EC2 instance, you can proceed with the Control Room installation.