hands-on lab

Creating a Security Hardened Amazon Machine Image

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration: Up to 1 hour and 30 minutes

Students: 51

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Description

Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is a way of encapsulating operating system configuration and application software into an image that can be used to easily launch new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances.

Learning how to use Amazon Machine Images will help you become more effective at deploying solutions that must adhere to security requirements. You can also use AMIs to replicate on-premise server configurations and simplify the migration of legacy applications into the public AWS cloud.

In this hands-on lab, you will manually create a new AMI, and you will use the EC2 Image Builder to automate the process.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

Launch an Amazon EC2 instance
Manually create an AMI from a running EC2 instance
Use the EC2 Image Builder to create an image pipeline

Intended audience

Candidates for the Security Specialty and Solutions Architect Associate AWS certifications
Cloud Architects
Data Engineers
DevOps Engineers
Software Engineers