**CREATE KEY PAIR** ------------------- 1. In the AWS Console window that you opened, in the top right hand corner, next to your account name, click on the drop down and change your region to **us-west-2 (Oregon)**
1. From the top left of the screen click **Services** and type & select **EC2**
2. From the left hand window pane, navigate to **Network & Security**, click on **Key Pairs** and from the right hand window
select **Create Key Pairs** from the top menu
- Enter the Key pair name of : **stg316-key**
- Select **PEM** file format
- Select **Create**
3. It will then download a **.pem** file to your users **downloads** folder (or
a location you have specified). If you are using Google Chrome, the
downloaded file will also be shown at the bottom of the screen for
reference.
> **Note:** Take note of the location of this **.pem** file you downloaded, as you will copy this key to your deployed Amazon Windows EC2 instance, once you have deployed it as part of the subsequent instructions
**DEPLOY VPC ENVIRONMENT** -------------------------- **Note:** Make sure you set your region to **us-west-2 (Oregon)** 1. From the AWS console on your local laptop/workstation, click **Services** and type & select **CloudFormation** 2. In the top right hand corner, next to your account name, click on the drop down and change your region to **us-west-2 (Oregon)**
- Now in the CloudFormation page click on **Create stack**
- Click on **With new resources** from the drop down
- Under Amazon S3 URL copy and paste this URL
5. Click on **Next** to continue
6. On the next page scroll to the bottom and click on **Next** to continue
7. Click on **Create stack**
8. Click on the **Stack info** tab and click on the **refresh** icon as
highlighted in **RED** until the status value changes
to **CREATE_COMPLETE** (this may take 1-2 minutes) as shown below, you can
then progress to the next steps
**DEPLOY WORKSHOP RESOURCES** ----------------------------- **Note:** Make sure your region is set to **us-west-2 (Oregon)** 1. From the AWS console on your local laptop/workstation, click **Services** and type & select **CloudFormation** - Click on **Create stack** - Click on **With new resources** from the drop down - Under Amazon S3 URL enter this address
5. Scroll to the bottom of the next screen and click on **Next**
6. Scroll to the bottom of the next screen, check the **CloudFormation
acknowledgement** box and click on **Create stack**
- You will be taken to the CloudFormation stack status page
- Click on the **Stack info** tab and click on the **refresh** icon as
highlighted in **RED** until the status value changes
to **CREATE_COMPLETE** (this may take approx. 4-5 minutes) as shown below,
you can then progress to the next steps
**CONNECT TO YOUR INSTANCE** ---------------------------- **Firstly let’s retrieve the Windows administrator password from Secrets manager** 1. From **your laptop** connect to the AWS console, click **Services** and type & select **Secrets Manager** 2. Click on the value shown under **Secret name** (i.e. AdminSecret-abczxy) 3. Scroll down the page and click on **Retrieve secret value** 4. Copy and paste the password value shown into a notepad file 5. Next let’s connect to your Windows Server EC2 instance 6. From **your laptop** connect to the AWS console, click **Services** and type & select **EC2** 7. From the left hand menu, select **Instances** - In the right hand pane, select the box next to “**Workshop Windows instance 1**”, then right click and select **Connect** - Click on **Download Remote Desktop File** - Open the downloaded Remote Desktop File and select Connect at the prompt - Enter the credentials below and click on OK - username : Administrator - Password : the value you obtained from Secrets manager 7. When you have successfully logged into your Windows EC2 instance via the Remote Desktop Session, navigate back to your local workstation/laptop to where you stored the **\*.pem** key file earlier. **Right click** & select **copy** on the **\*.pem** file, and then go into your Remote Desktop Session (Windows EC2 instance) and **right click** on a free space on the desktop screen and select **paste** to copy the **\*.pem** key file across.
**Note:** All remaining tasks for the workshop will be performed through the **Remote Desktop Session to the Windows EC2 Instance you just connected to in the previous steps**. ----------------
9. Open the Chrome icon located on the desktop of the **Windows EC2 instance** and log into your AWS Account URL
**SUMMARY** ----------- In this module you deployed your base VPC, subnets, security groups, Amazon EC2 instances and the SSH key that that you will use for the remainder of the workshop.
**END OF MODULE 1** ------------------- Click here to go to [module 2](/module2/README.md)