Architecting on AWS Exercise 1 - Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of
Contents ..........................................................................
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Overview ..........................................................................
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About the batch processing

cluster ...........................................................................
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Learning
objectives ........................................................................
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....... 4

Download your EC2 Key Pair private key

file ..............................................................................
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Launch and configure a batch processing

instance ..........................................................................
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Create an IAM
role ..............................................................................
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. 8

Launch AN EC2
instance ..........................................................................
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Create an AMI from your batch processing

instance ..........................................................................
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Create two SQS task

queues ............................................................................
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Create an S3
bucket ............................................................................
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10

Launch worker
nodes .............................................................................
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Dispatch work and view

results ...........................................................................
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Monitoring the
cluster ...........................................................................
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.. 13

Create an
alarm .............................................................................
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Create an SQS
alarm .............................................................................
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14

Auto scaling the

cluster............................................................................
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15

Launch a CLI
instance ..........................................................................
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15

Create an auto scaling launch

configuration .....................................................................
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Create a User Data

Script ............................................................................
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Create a Launch
Configuration .....................................................................
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Create an auto scaling

group .............................................................................
..................................................................... 16

Create an auto scaling

policy ............................................................................
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Execute the auto scaling policy using

CloudWatch ........................................................................
....................................... 18

Test your
policy ............................................................................
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...... 18

Conclusion ........................................................................
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