Launching an instance

There will be scenarios – usually when testing and developing your infrastructure code – where you need quick access to an instance. Creating it via the AWS CLI is the quickest and most consistent way to create one-off instances.

There are other recipes in this book that will require a running instance. This recipe will get you started.

Getting ready

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

Here, we will be launching an instance of AWS Linux using an Amazon Machine Image (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, since AMIs are stored in each region with unique identifiers.

You must have configured...