Use this function to create an instance in AWS with the given details.

Syntax

Create Instance (access_key, secret_key, image_id, instance_name, location, instance_type, keyname)

Parameters

To know more about access_key and secret_key, click here.

To locate the Image ID and Instance Type, do the following:

1. Login to your AWS account.
2. Navigate through the path: EC2 > Instances > Launch Instances.

3. Note the Image ID and click the Select button.

4. Note the Instance Type.

To create the Keyname, do the following:

1. Login to your AWS account.
2. Navigate through the path: EC2 > Key Pairs.

3. Enter the key pair name and click the Create key pair button

Returns

Sample

Create Instance (XYZ, ABC, ami-000000, JiffyInstance, us-east-2, t2.nano, Key)

• Uses the access key XYZ and the secret key ABC to login to AWS with image ID ami-000000, and the key name Key to authenticate, creates an instance JiffyInstance of type t2.nano in the location us-east-2
  Returns the Instance ID of the instance created.

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