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The Cloud9 workspace should be built by an IAM user with Administrator privileges,
not the root account user. Please ensure you are logged in as an IAM user, not the root
account user.
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Ad blockers, javascript disablers, and tracking blockers should be disabled for
the cloud9 domain, or connecting to the workspace might be impacted.
Cloud9 requires third-party-cookies. You can whitelist the **specific domains**.
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## Launch Cloud9 in your closest region
Use a single region for the duration of this workshop. This workshop supports the following regions, however:
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If you are using the **Events Engine please be aware** that there are **only two regions suported**. They are **N. California - us-west-1** and **Oregon - us-west-2**
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- **N. California**
- **N. California - us-west-1**
- **Oregon**
- **Oregon - us-west-2**
- **N. Virginia**
- **N. Virginia - us-east-1**
- **Ohio**
- **Ohio - us-east-2**
- **Ireland**
- **Ireland - eu-west-1**
- **Singapore**
- **Singapore - ap-southeast-1**
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You **must use** the **t3.large** instance type for this workshop. If the **t3.large** instance type is not available in the region you first selected, please choose a different region where the **t3.large** instance type is available.
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You **must use** the **Amazon Linux 2** platform type for this workshop. If the **Amazon Linux 2** platform type is not available in the region you first selected, please choose a different region where the **Amazon Linux 2** platform type is available.
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## Select your options
- Select **Create environment**
- Name it **AppD-Workshop**
- Make sure **New EC2 instance** is selected
- Select **Additional instance types**
- Choose **t3.large** for instance type
- Ensure **Amazon Linux 2** is selcted as the platform
- Choose **1 day** timeout for cost saving setting, as seen below.
- Select **Secure Shell (SSH)** for the connection
- Then click on the **Create** button
- Now click on the **Open** link to open your Cloud9 UI
- When it comes up, customize the environment by closing the **welcome tab** and **lower work area**, and opening a new **terminal** tab in the main work area:
- Your workspace should now look like this:
- If you like this theme, you can choose it yourself by selecting **View / Themes / Solarized / Solarized Dark**
in the Cloud9 workspace menu.