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# Lab Setup

In this activity, we will deploy the CloudFormation template to create the lab environment.

The environment for this lab consists of:
- An EC2 instance with following components 
   - AWS Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)
   - Source Oracle database
   - Oracle SQL Developer
   - A sample web application 
- An Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL instance used as the target database

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## Deploy the CloudFormation Template

1. Click on one of the buttons below to launch the CloudFormation stack in one of the AWS regions.

Region | Launch
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US East (N. Virginia) | [![Launch Solution in us-east-1](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/images/cloudformation-launch-stack-button.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us-east-1#/stacks/new?stackName=DMSWorkshop&templateURL=https://reinvent-2019-oracle-aurora.s3.amazonaws.com/GPSTEC315_lab_setup.yaml)
US West (Oregon) | [![Launch Solution in us-west-2](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/images/cloudformation-launch-stack-button.png)](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us-west-2#/stacks/new?stackName=DMSWorkshop&templateURL=https://reinvent-2019-oracle-aurora.s3.amazonaws.com/GPSTEC315_lab_setup.yaml)

2. Click **Next** on the Select Template page.

3. Enter a **Stack Name** or accept the default and click **Next**.

4. On the Options page, accept all the defaults and click **Next**.

5. On the Review page, click **Create**.
    
6. Click on Stacks in the navigation panel to list the CloudFormation Stacks. You should see the `DMSWorkshop` stack creation in progress.

![Stack Progress](images/stack-progress.png)

7. After the stack creation is complete, select the stack Name - `DMSWorkshop`, Click on the **Resources** tab. You will see various AWS resources created.

8. Make a note of the stack output parameters. You can find the stack output parameters in the **Outputs** tab.

![Stack Output](images/cfn-output.png)
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