Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Services

© Brian Beach, Steven Armentrout, Rodney Bozo, Emmanuel Tsouris 2019

B. Beach et al.Pro PowerShell for Amazon Web Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4850-8_3

3. Basic Instance Management

Brian Beach¹ , Steven Armentrout², Rodney Bozo³ and Emmanuel Tsouris⁴

(1)

Raleigh, NC, USA

(2)

Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA

(3)

Sterling, VA, USA

(4)

North Bend, WA, USA

 

Now that we’re done configuring our environment, we’ll jump right in and get started by creating an instance. An EC2 instance is, simply, a server running in the cloud. With a few quick clicks, we will have our first server up and running.

In this chapter, we will learn to create new instances and connect them. Then we will discuss how to start, stop, and terminate instances. We will learn various ...